![]() $ 60k to $ 90k | Sotheby's sale of Ancient Egyptian Sculpture and Works of Art 2018 totaled a strong $8,986,500, over the high pre-sale estimate. The top lot was the monumental Granite Figure of Sekhmet, which sold for $4.17m. Highlights included a fine small-scale basalt bust of King Tuthmosis III, an imposing over-lifesize fragmentary red granite head of King Amenhotep III from the last ten years of his reign, and an elegant steatite statuette of the Lady Iset , priestess of the god Sobek, dating to the early 19th Dynasty. | ![]() Black Basalt Head Of Tuthmosis III, 18th Dynasty, 1479-1426 B.C. $250k |
![]() Wood mask with inlaid eyes, 25th/26th Dynasty. $ 1.4m | ![]() Limestone mask, 30th Dynasty/early Ptolemaic Period. $200k to $ 300k | ![]() Granite enthroned figure of the goddess Sekhmet. $ 4.1m | ![]() Statuette of the Lady Iset , priestess of the god Sobek, dating to the early 19th Dynasty. $760k |
![]() Djehuty-Mose (Tothmes), polychrome limestone ushabti, 1292-1190 B.C. $1.3m. | ![]() Black granite or basalt relief fragment from the 30th Dynasty/Early Ptolemaic Period, reign of Nectanebo II /Ptolemy I, 360-282 B.C. $211k in 1998 | ![]() Limestone figure of lion, 30th Dynasty/Ptolemaic Period, 380-30 B.C. $154,250 in 2001. |