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  • Celebrating our65th Anniversary Volume XVIII - 2007

    Art of the Ancient WorldGreek, Etruscan, Roman, Egyptian, & Near Eastern Antiquities

    royal-athena galleries

    new york london

  • We are pleased to issue this catalog celebrating our 65th anniversary of dealing inclassical numismatics and our 53rd year of deal-ing in ancient art. It illustrates in full color 259selected antiquities priced from $1,500 to$675,000.

    This publication is one of a continuing seriesprimarily illustrating new acquisitions featuredin our New York and London galleries, whereover two thousand fine works of art are on permanent display. All of the antiquities in thiscatalog are displayed at our New York gallery,the largest and most extensive collection ofthe ancient arts ever exhibited for sale.

    In addition to the many masterworks of ancient art, there is a wide variety of fineitems on display priced from $100 to $1,000and up, including Greek and Roman coins, OldMaster prints and drawings, and antiqueEgyptian prints and photographs, perfect forthe beginning collector or for that very special gift. A few of the pieces illustrated maynot be available since they were sold while thecatalog was in preparation, but a number ofother newly acquired objects will be on displayin our New York gallery and on our website:www.royalathena.com, updated weekly.

    We unconditionally guarantee the authenticity of every work of art sold by Royal-Athena Galleries.

    2006 Jerome M. Eisenberg, Inc. Composed and printed in the United States of America.

    Every object purchased by our galleries has been legally acquired. If imported by usinto the United States, we have done so in compliance with all federal regulations and havegiven full consideration to all internationaltreaties governing objects of cultural importance. Antiquities priced at $10,000 ormore are now checked and registered with theArt Loss Registry in London.

    All of our objects are clearly labeled with complete descriptions and prices. Conditionreports on all the objects are available uponrequest. We encourage browsing and are happyto assist and advise both the amateur and theserious collector. We urge our prospectiveclients to shop around, for we are proud of ourquality, expertise, and competitive pricing.Appointments may be arranged outside of regular gallery hours for clients desiring privacyUpdated price lists for our catalogs are avaiv-able upon request. For terms and conditions ofsale see the inside back cover.

    COVER PHOTOS

    Roman bronze group: the epiphany ofDionysos, 2nd-3rd Century AD.

    H. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm.), p. 25, no. 36.Back cover: Egyptian wood coffin lid,

    XVIIIth Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III, ca. 1386-1349 BC.

    H. 71 5/8 in. (182 cm.), p. 83, no. 227.

    Text and catalog design byJerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D.,

    and F. Williamson Price.Photographs by Brent M. Ridge

    royal-athena galleries established 1942

    Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph.D. Director

    Royal-Athena at Seaby 14 Old Bond Street London W1S 4PP UKTel.: (44) 207-495-2590Fax.: (44) 207-491-1595Monday-Friday, 10 to 5

    No. 84 - Art of the Ancient World - Vol. XVIII - January 2007

    153 East 57th Street New York, NY 10022 Tel.: (212) 355-2034 Fax.: (212) 688-0412e-mail:[email protected], 10 to 6

    VISIT OUR WEBSITE,updated weekly with

    our latest acquisitions:www.royalathena.com

    We will be exhibiting at BAAF Basel, The Basel Ancient Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, November 3-8, 2006

    Palm Beach! Fine Art & Antique Fair, Palm Beach, February 2-11, 2007TEFAF, The European Fine Arts Fair, Maastricht, The Netherlands, March 9-18, 2007 BAAF Brussels, The Brussels Ancient Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium, June 1-7, 2007 BAAF Basel, The Basel Ancient Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland, November 2-7, 2007

    (Check our website to confirm the dates)

    CLASSICAL ARTCycladic Marble Sculptures 3 Greek Marble Sculptures 6Roman Marble Sculptures 9Roman Wall Painting 20Greek Bronze Sculptures 21Etruscan Bronze Sculptures 23Roman Bronze Sculptures, etc. 24Ancient Bronze Animals 32Images of Warfare, Helmets, and Arms 35 Greek Terracottas 48Etruscan and Roman Terracottas 49Early Greek Vases 51Corinthian Vases 52Attic Black-figure Vases 53Attic Red-figure Vases 56South Italian Vases 60Etruscan and Roman Vases 64Greek and Roman Glass 65Classical Silver Vessels and Varia 67Classical Gold Jewelry 68

    BYZANTINE AND MEDIEVAL ART 71

    ANCIENT VARIA 74

    EGYPTIAN ARTEgyptian Stone Sculptures and Reliefs 75Egyptian Bronze Sculptures 78Egyptian Ushabtis 81Egyptian Terracottas 82Egyptian Wood & Cartonnage Sculptures 83Egyptian Faience 88Coptic Textiles 89

    NEAR EASTERN ART 90Anatolia, Syria, UrartuSouth Arabia, Western Asia

    COLLECTING ANCIENT ART 94ROYAL-ATHENA GALLERIES 94Expertise and Ethics 95Royal-Athena Galleries Catalogs Inside back cover

    Table of Contents

    Art of the Ancient WorldGreek, Etruscan, Roman, Byzantine, Egyptian, & Near Eastern Antiquities

    1Photos above: Cycladic marble head of a goddess (pp. 4-5, no. 2), Roman marble over life-size veiled head of a goddess (pp. 8-9, no. 9)

  • CYCLADIC MARBLE IDOL OF THE KAPSALA TYPE: AN EARLY WORK OF THE KONTOLEONSCULPTOR Early Cycladic II phase, ca. 2600-2500 BC. H. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.)H. 8 5/8 in. (22 cm.) Ex collection of Prof. Hugo Munsterberg (1916-1995), New Paltz, New York,acquired from J. J. Klejman in 1967. Exhibited: Ancient Art of the Cyclades, The Katonah Museum of Art,Katonah, New York, October-December 2006.

    These enigmatic yet evocative sculptures, named after the group of islands off the southeast coast of Greecewhere they were found, more than any other ancient works of art appeal to the modern eye and can safely becalled the first truly great sculpture in Greece. Probably the most striking characteristic of Cycladic sculpture isits geometric, two-dimensional nature, which has a strangely contemporary familiarity. The head, seen inprofile, is fairly thick, with a horizontal surface at the crown. Seen from the front it is shield-shaped, nar-rowing at the crown. The face has a convex surface and the chin is rounded. The material used in the man-ufacture of nearly all of the idols was a white, coarse-grained marble found in abundance on the islands ofParos and Naxos.

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    Cycladic Marble Sculptures

    Introduction

    As we enter our 53rd year of dealing in ancient art we are pleased to present in our 84thpublication an outstanding selection of antiquities assembled primarily from old collec-tions in the United States and Europe. A large number of these objects were originallypurchased from us over the past several decades and we are delighted to offer them again to a new generation of enthusiasts.

    We are proud to offer a group of antiquities from the collection of the late Prof. HugoMunsterberg (1916-1995), a renowned scholar in Oriental art, who retired from the State University of New York at New Paltz as Professor Emeritus in 1979. An author ofmany outstanding books on all phases of art history, especially Oriental art, he acquired his first pieces from us in 1969 and was a loyal client and good friend for some 35 years.His primary collection of Japanese ceramics, sold by us in the early 1980s, is now in theBrooklyn Museum. This year his family has entrusted us to sell the rest of the collec-tion, which has remained intact since his death and consists of over 400 works of art.Among the pieces in this catalog we might especially single out the Cycladic idol, no. 1,and the Attic white ground lekythos, no. 125.

    The L.B. collection in New York, especially rich in Egyptian antiquities, was formed by us exclusively from 1960 to the time of Mr. Bs death in 1987. He devoted an entire room for his Egyptian collection, which was kept intact by his family until this past spring, nearly twenty years later. In addition to the number of fine Egyptian objects presented in this catalog, such as the Middle Kingdom wood male figure, no. 228, weexpect to have a further selection for volume XVIII.

    Quite a few other antiquities in this catalog date back to much earlier collections such as several acquired in the first half of the 19th century by English collectors. The Atticblack-figure white ground kyathos, no. 121, is from the famed Castle Ashby collectionassembled in the 1820s by the 2nd Marquess of Northampton (as was the AtticPanathenaic black-figure amphora in our previous catalog). The Attic red-figure Nolanamphora, no. 129, is from the collection of Edward Davenport (1778-1847) ofCapesthorne Hall. The Roman marble life-size bust of a military commander, no. 16, isour third offering from the collection of Sir Francis Sacheverell Darwin (d. 1859), a rel-ative of Charles Darwin.

    We have devoted over half a century to selling carefully attributed works of art with particular attention to their provenance. This diligence has resulted in an astonishinglylow percentage of claims against legal ownership less than 0.0003% or one out of every 4000 objects! In view of the increasing legislation being passed in several countriesto restrict the trade in illegally exported antiquities (which we applaud), we may assure our clients that we continue to proudly conduct a very ethical business and take all of the proper steps to insure that our inventory is free of any possible claims.

    Jerome M. Eisenberg, Ph. D.

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  • 2 CYCLADIC MARBLE HEAD OF AN IDOL from an exceptionally large reclining figure of slender proportions,her roughly oval face with a faintly convex facial plane and long triangular nose. The isotopic values and petro-graphic charact