An Egyptian Blue-Green Faience Offering Cup for Seti I, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Gaming Pieces Strung on a 14K gold

Strung on a 14K gold chain

acquired in the 1990s

This large redware dish is an excellent example of African Red Slipware (ARS) produced during the Roman Late Imperial Period

Since this entailed the setting upright of a huge djed by means of ropes rather in the manner of a maypole

and justice

An Egyptian Blue-Green Faience Offering Cup for Seti I, New Kingdom, ca. 1550 - 1069 BCE Gaming Pieces Strung on a 14K goldof blue green glazed faience, the cylindrical form with wide foot and outward turned lip, the exterior stained with offering oil and faded royal rectangular glyph panel for Seti I, that reads: Men Maat Re, loved by Osiris, Lord of Ro setau. Cups of this style were made to commemorate the construction of a building, principally temples, honoring the reigning monarch. They were manufactured on the authorization of pharaoh and were considered a personal