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Ophelia, 1880, by Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923)

Antonio Garduno. The painter and model Nahui Olin (Carmen Mondragon) 1920s

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Bust of Tutankhamun sold at auction for £4.7m despite Egypt protests

A brown quartzite head of young king Tutankhamun has sold at auction in London for more than £4.7m despite Egyptian demands for its return. The ‘rare and beautiful’ 3,000-year-old sculpture goes under the hammer in defiance of claims it was stolen.

The more than 3,000-year-old sculpture, displayed at Christie’s London auction house, shows the boy king taking the form of the ancient Egyptian god Amen.

An unnamed buyer bought the head for £4,746,250 ($5.97m), including commission and in line with the estimated price before the sale, Christie’s said.

The 28.5cm (11.22in) high piece, with damage only to the ears and nose, was sold from the private Resandro collection of Egyptian art. Read more.

Girdle of Princess Sithathor

This girdle of the Princess Sithathor is made of eight gold, half-open cowry shells. The ones at each end have flat reverses, and were joined by means of grooves to serve as a clasp, fastening the girdle when they slid one into the other. The shells are separated from each other by rhomboidal polychrome beads of carnelian, feldspar, and lapis lazuli.

Gold cowry shells were imitations of the real cowry shells that had been used in belts, bracelets, anklets, and necklaces since the pre-dynastic period. People thought that cowry shells possessed powerful magical properties and increase female fertility.

Princess Sithathor was a daughter of King Senusret II, and was most probably a sister of Senusret III, as she was buried within his pyramid complex at Dahshur. Very fine pieces of jewelry that belonged to her were found in her tomb; they are now preserved in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, reign of Senusret II, ca. 1897-1878 BC. Now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 30858

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An Epitaph for Agamemnon

Ausonius, Epitaphia heroum qui bello Troico interfuerunt I: “Agamemnoni” I – the king of kings, Atreus’ son, Avenger of my brother’s wife – I met My death myself at my own wife’s hands. What profit does it give me to have punished, In my pain, the theft of Helen – when I, who sought to make adulterers pay, Lie slain by the hand of Clytemnestra? Rex regum Atrides, fraternae coniugis ultor,     oppetii manibus coniugis ipse meae. quid prodest Helenes raptum punisse dolentem,     vindicem adulterii cum Clytemestra necet?

Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, ca. 1822