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This post is only tangentially related to CCF, but I thought that there might be some interest here. Harlan Berk just sent out a catalog of ancient Egyptian objects called The Glories of Ancient Egypt. The items are generally pretty spendy, but look pretty amazing to me.
Full disclosure: I have bought from HB before, but have no financial interest in them or any of the items in this catalog. "If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Would be interesting to see, but Egyptian artifacts are not something I would want to own.
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Man, you had me thinking you had bought a Nectanebo stater!  I'm with Ron though, I like the consistency of a "coin" collection, which Egypt sadly cannot really offer. |
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Only ever owned one Egyptian artifact, an ushabti:  Sometimes I miss it and the other artifacts I unloaded years back, and I think about what it might be like to own and display a nice collection of such things. But there's only one budget I'm working with, and so I have to stay focused on the coins. A couple years back we had a nice run of CCF members' artifacts at: http://goccf.com/t/198163If anyone wants to revive that old thread by adding interesting acquisitions, feel free. I for one would love to see them. |
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Their fascination with death and the occult creep me out. It would be my luck to pick up a piece with a curse on it. Not that I really believe that, but who knows I wouldn't want to find out the hard way.
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@ Bob : very nice ushabti of the late period , do you have a translation of the inscription ? You are right with the budget . It is very expensive to buy these objects and you have to make a choice , but , as I love the Egyptian culture , I find sometimes the time ( and the money) to buy a small not to expensive object . My wife says all the time I spend to much money on my coins , but I prefer to buy a beautiful coin . If I have the time tomorrow , I will make a photo of a part of my collectionand post it , it is the part exposed in the dinner room , the rest is either somewhere in the house , either somewhere in a box .
@ Echizento : for Egyptians , death was a part of their live . Live ended not with death ,so there were focussed on the afterlive . So it is logic they protected their tombs by blaspheming thieves. they punished robbersalbert
very hardly and the blasphemies inscribed on the entries of the toms have give origine to the legend of Lord Carnavon in modern times .
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I'm generally not very interested in (pre-1900) non-coin artifacts, and I particularly don't want to get anything Egyptian because it's far too likely that the modern Egyptian government (or its successor) will declare all that stuff cultural property and confiscate it from me anyway (and maybe even put me in jail).
And I almost certainly can't afford any such objects anyway.
That said, it would be very nice to own one of those ancient Egyptian standard weights that were effectively precursors to coins.
Don't know if any of those were ever sold, however.
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...do you have a translation of the inscription ? Sorry, Albert, but no, I don't. |
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Even though this is not a coin related thread, it is still and interesting subject and as long as the Bobby doesn't mind that I would like to keep here. In a non related subject, but relevant to my earlier comment. While on active duty in the U.S Coast Guard I was the Lighthouse keeper for five lighthouses along the California Coast. One of the lighthouses was Point Conception Light. The point is a scared area for the Chumash Indians. Here is a brief account to what happened to me one day. http://www.lighthousefriends.com/light.asp?ID=11 |
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"If you climb a good tree, you get a push."
-----Ghanaian proverb
"The danger we all now face is distinguishing between what is authentic and what is performed."
-----King Adz
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Quote:@j1m, like the one in this thread? http://goccf.com/t/244655 I was thinking of something older than 1st century AD, and probably made of something other than glass (bronze?), but yes, that one could be similar. |
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Here is a brief account to what happened to me one day. Creepy. The ghost(s) apparently did not appreciate being joked about. |
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Only ever owned one Egyptian artifact, an ushabti Where is it now? Artifacts are pretty cool to look at, but I would rather own a Ptolemaic coin  . Have you ever wondered.... there might of been a blood/flesh sacrifice on the artifact or has a curse, Seth will haunt you in your dreams...all hail Seth  |
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Where is it now? Sold it through ECIN, which was one of the dealers at VCoins for a number of years. |
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