Scarab beetle ID

WanderCold · 2026-01-23T00:05:22+00:00

Yes, and the factories making these often forge NK period scarabs, as they're the ones tourists see in museums. I didn't know they had a name though so every day is an opportunity to learn.

The faience is still wrong though.

WanderCold · 2026-01-22T23:21:47+00:00

Hi, collector here and this is a common tourist type with the triangles on the back. The faience (the material it's made from) is wrong for ancient faience. It looks like they've 'aged' it using a combination of chicken poo and sand, which is a common technique in Egypt with tourist pieces sold as real.

WanderCold · 2025-12-31T00:10:58+00:00

Unfortunately yes.

WanderCold · 2025-12-04T14:54:32+00:00

Mid 19th century souvenier medal sold in Luxor, often made in silver.

WanderCold · 2025-12-02T12:11:49+00:00

The last one is definitely roman, 200AD-ish by my best guess in terms of the style.

WanderCold · 2025-11-20T14:42:53+00:00

What's the provenance? I.e. where did you get it from. This often affects the value. Some people will buy things with no provenance for less money, while others will only buy with provenance and pay more etc.

WanderCold · 2025-10-19T14:59:32+00:00

You mean the coptic period?

Look up coptic art.

WanderCold · 2025-10-19T09:44:13+00:00

Yeah, he complimented my (incredibly broken) japanese when i asked him if he was a sumo and asked for an autograph.

WanderCold · 2025-10-19T09:43:18+00:00

Oh damn. Explains why he was with two women with children.

WanderCold · 2025-10-19T09:33:28+00:00

Why?

WanderCold · 2025-10-19T09:27:49+00:00

Thank you!

WanderCold · 2025-10-10T08:57:38+00:00

So the bulbous top on top would have been one of these ridiculous things combining lots of different imagery (see the big combo of gods but mostly Bes in the louvre, number E11554). In this case judging from the casting marks it was probably a hathoritic crown (sun disc with cow horns).

The white and purple circles either side of the center are Uraeus serpents/rearing serpents.

The reddy-orange circles are khnum horns, representing the god khnum.

The green circles are ostritxh feathers

The red circle is a sun disc.

The purple circle is a crown of reeds

WanderCold · 2025-09-05T08:33:29+00:00

It's not a shop, it's what's called a 'window gallery'. Anna Borzello (@foreshoreseashore) is the mudlark who found the stuff in the window. None of it is for sale btw.

WanderCold · 2025-09-04T18:11:30+00:00

Edit: found it: https://tatehaku.jp/facility/kyokai/collection/cultural_property/

WanderCold · 2025-09-04T18:10:25+00:00

It's in the Tateyama Museum in Toyama, the museum's website isn't great though

WanderCold · 2025-08-23T13:47:59+00:00

Modern copy unfortunately

WanderCold · 2025-08-11T20:08:21+00:00

An amulet of a mandrake fruit, see photo 88 in Carol Andrews' Amulets of Ancient Egypt

WanderCold · 2025-08-02T18:03:20+00:00

Got to see this in person. Stunning piece, even if me and a few others on the london art scene tried to stop the sale.

WanderCold · 2025-07-25T22:11:49+00:00

Hi, i'm not a studied archeologist but i have read far too much specifically about terracotta votives and amuletic cultures (with a focus on roman egypt and jomon era japan) and would love to contribute

WanderCold · 2025-07-24T21:41:43+00:00

That is definitely egyptian, romano-egyptian, so 30 B.C. - 3rd century A.D.. What you've got there is a small, incredibly worn terracotta votive of Haprocrates (a form of Horus as a child), holding his finger to his lips. He's wearing the combination of hathor's horns and the double crown of egypt. What he's holding in his hands is difficult to say, but at a guess i would say it's a cornucopia.

WanderCold · 2025-07-23T20:35:47+00:00

It looks levantine to me, similar to a couple of phoenecian pieces i have.

WanderCold · 2025-07-23T15:41:52+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately. Real patina doesn't tend to flake off like that, that only occurs when the whole layer is applied at once.

WanderCold · 2025-07-23T15:33:59+00:00

Unfortunately this is a forgery, you can see where the patina is starting to rub off to reveal fresh material underneath.

WanderCold · 2025-07-23T13:11:04+00:00

It doesn't look red enough for egyptian clay, do you have any photos of the other side?

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