Antique Print-EGYPT-ARTEFACT-BEMBINE TABLET-ISIS-HIEROGLYPHS-Caylus-1767
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Antique Print-EGYPT-ARTEFACT-BEMBINE TABLET-ISIS-HIEROGLYPHS-Caylus-1767

Print

€145.00

‘PL. XII (..).’

– Original antique print showing the Bembine Tablet of Isis (Mensa Isiaca), an elaborate 1st-century Roman bronze tablet inlaid with silver and enamel featuring pseudo-hieroglyphic scenes of Egyptian deities. The central panel and surrounding registers display rows of Greco-Egyptian figures, altars, and symbolic hieroglyphic-like motifs.

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SKU: PCOM-1269 Category: Tag:

Description

Medium: Engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.

Sheet size: 46.5 x 32.5 cm (18.31 x 12.8 inch). Image size: 42 x 28 cm. (16.54 x 11.02 inch).

Condition: good, given age. Light foxing. Original folds as issued. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

EGYPT-ARTEFACT-BEMBINE TABLET-ISIS-HIEROGLYPHS | PCO-MISC-BOX-02

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From: ‘Receuil d’Antiquités Egyptiennes, Etrusques, Grecques, Romaines et Gauloises. Supplement, Tome Septieme. By Anne-Claude-Philippe de Chubieres & Comte de Caylus. Published by N.M. Tilliard, Paris, 1767.

Biography engraver: Engraver unknown/to be determined.

Biography artist: Compte de Caylus (1692-1765) was a French antiquarian and archaeologist.

Additional information

Dimensions 325 × 465 × 1 cm

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