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Artemis Fine Arts presents the Cyber Weekend Timed Marketplace, a dynamic online auction hosted from their Louisville, Colorado gallery. Renowned for their expertise in global antiquities and ethnographic material, Artemis offers a curated selection that spans centuries and civilizations—ranging from Ancient Egyptian and Greek artifacts to Pre-Columbian pottery and fine visual arts. This specific timed event, closing on November 30 at 5:00 PM CST, provides collectors an accessible opportunity to acquire authentic, legally sourced cultural treasures and unique holiday finds. In this image: Naga Brass & Beaded Ceremonial Crown Diadem. Est: $600 USD - $900 USD.
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Maya Copador Polychrome Bowl - Three Monkey Motif. Pre-Columbian, Maya, Copador style, Honduras or El Salvador, ca. 600 to 900 CE. A delightfully expressive Maya Copador bowl, its rounded form painted with three stylized monkeys in bold black slip, their sinuous limbs and curling tails animated with playful energy. Est: $450 USD - $675 USD.
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Lockwood Dennis Painting - "House 7" (2008). Lockwood "Woody" Dennis (American, 1937-2012). "House 7" oil on canvas, 2008. Signed, dated, and titled on verso. A bold silhouette of memory rises in "House 7," where Lockwood Dennis renders a solitary home not as it is, but as it lingers in the mind - simplified, softened, and stripped to its most enduring geometry. Est: $450 USD - $675 USD.
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Roman Leaded Bronze Face Applique. Roman, Imperial period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A fine leaded bronze applique in the form of a relief, male head, perhaps intended as a god or satyr. Crowned by a bushy coiffure, the round visage features huge, heavy-lidded, almond-shaped eyes, a pug-like nose, and a down-turned mouth. Est: $200 USD - $300 USD.
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Romano-Egyptian Alabaster Nude Male Figure w/ Bird. Egypt, Roman period, ca. 1st to 2nd century CE. A remarkable alabaster figurine of a nude male youth standing with legs together and holding a bird to his chest with his left hand as his right arm hangs to his side. Size: 1.4" W x 3.4" H (3.6 cm x 8.6 cm) Est: $500 USD - $750 USD.
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Egyptian Faience Khnum Amulet. Ancient Egypt, Late Dynastic Period, 26th to 31st Dynasty, ca. 664 to 332 BCE. A mold-formed composite faience amulet charm in the form of a recumbent ram that symbolized the deity, Khnum, with a loop along the back for suspension. Est: $400 USD - $600 USD.
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Ancient Egyptian Pair of Carved Stone Cosmetic Pots. Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, dynasties 21 though 25, ca. 1070 to 664 BCE. This pair of miniature vessels includes one carved from striated alabaster and another from a chalky white stone, likely alabaster or another form of calcite. Est: $400 USD - $600 USD.
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Ancient Egyptian Terracotta Mold for Deity Bes Amulets. Egypt, New Kingdom to Late Period, ca. 1570 to 332 BCE. A pottery mold for creating amulets of the dwarf deity Bes. These molds were primarily used to produce amulets made of faience, a clay coated with a vitreous turquoise-blue glaze. Bes, revered as the protector of women and children, was frequently depicted in amulet form. Size: 1.8" L x 1.6" W (4.6 cm x 4.1 cm) Est: $450 USD - $675 USD.
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Ancient Greek Pottery Recumbent Symposium Banqueteer. Greece, possibly eastern empire, ca. 6th century BCE. A Greek terracotta figure in the form of a reclining male draped in long himation. He lays with his head raised, the left elbow resting upon a pillow, and right hand on his knees. It appears that he is holding a rhyton in his left hand - certainly filled with wine. Size: 2.25" L x 1.925" H (5.7 cm x 4.9 cm) Est: $350 USD - $525 USD.
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Pair of Roman Copper Phallic & Anthropomorphic Amulets. Roman, Imperial period, ca. 1st to 3rd century CE. A fascinating pair of Roman copper alloy amulets, each cast in a highly stylized anthropomorphic form with potent symbolic undertones. Est: $500 USD - $750 USD.