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  From Tony

10th April 2006

 

Since January 2006 I have seen the following statue (A) sold by four different dealers and each one has given a completely different description of the item.

Which (if any ) are real?

I would say for sure that B C and D are castings. (Did the ancient Egyptians use 'stone composite' ?)

Is there a higher probabilty of an artifact being genuine if it is made of Stone?

 

Here is what I recorded:

 

Item A - 7379594105  sold by Artifactforu on January 11, 2006. He described it as Queen Twosret and dated it accordingly - 1187  -  1185 B.C.E. It is made of stone (you can see cracks in it - possibly the reason why it broke off from its base?) The item has a faint trace of blue to it.

 




ITEM A

 

Item B - 7397094908  sold by sundance-gallerie on March 15. He describes it as being a Statue of Hathor. He says it is stone (it has no cracks like A and look exactly like C which is said to be made of stone composite). He says " ... it represents Hathor as a lady with no cow horns."  "It is a very unique piece." and dates it by saying "It is very old."

 

 




ITEM B

 

Item C - 7399876556  sold by egyptianseller on March 25. He described it as a "Queen as Divine Adoratrice of Amun"  He says it is made of stone composite and dates it from 1075 - 715 B.C.E.

 

 

 

 




ITEM C

 

Item D - 7406239878  sold by lost_civ.  He describes it by saying her body is arched - I do not see any arch - like that of Nut. He says the headdress is a pot, symbolic of Nut. It is made of clay (see the holes) and he dates it 332 - 323 B.C.E

 

 




ITEM D

  • Mould made objects of this size are rarely found in ancient Egypt unless in metal.
  • The similarities of these things are indication that they are all made from the same mould and they are all dreadful fakes.
  • These sellers are amongst the worst culprits, selling this sort of silly fake on eBay.
  • eBay knows about them. Hundeds and hundreds of complaint emails have been sent by many dozens of us...for a long time. eBay prefers to do nothing about this.
  • What do  you think the "hieroglyhs" here say?

 

   From Aldo

23rd April 06

 

I submit the item number: 7407655204 as the fake of the week.

tinyurl.com/kwsxz

I like very much the face. It looks like the smiling face icons. The figurine reminds me of my daughter's handycrafts when she was 6 years old.

 

 




2nd November 06

Oh this is  wonderful! :o)

http://tinyurl.com/y5yabk

 

You are bidding on an amazing Rare Ancient Egyptian Wooden Funerary Boat  This amazing Boat  is very rare we got it from a superb private collection with some other amazing pieces we are listing these weeks and it's provenance from Loxur.

 







 

 

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