Seven Antiquities, circa 2300 B.C.-100 A.D.

comprising an Egyptian calcite jar of flaring cylindrical form with wide rim and foot, 6th Dynasty, a Cypriot pottery oinochoe painted in black over a red lip with concentric circles and encircling lines, circa 7th Century B.C., a Cypriot(?) pottery askos painted in black and red over a buff slip with criss-crossing bands and concentric circles, circa 7th Century B.C., an Etruscan red-figured skyphos decorated on one side with the profile head of a woman and on the other with a walking duck, a Hellenistic terracotta fragment decorated in applied relief with a bearded head, a Romano-Egyptian terracotta lamp surmounted by Isis in the form of a serpent, circa 2nd Century A.D., and a Memphis-ware flask in the form of Harpocrates seated on the backs of two addorsed ducks, circa 2nd Century A.D.

Collection of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966)
Professor Donald P. Hansen (1932-2007), New York

The Cypriot oinochoe has an old label underneath inscribed in ink "V. Freeburg/C 1."

For another lamp representing Isis as a serpent see F. Dunand, Catalogue des terres cuites gréco-romaines d'Égypte, Paris, 1990, p. 148, no. 395.  For a related Harpocrates flask see P. Graindor, Terres cuites de l'Égypte gréco-romaine, Antwerp, 1939, no. 16, pl. VIII.