AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE AMUN

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXV, 1070-712 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE AMUN
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXV, 1070-712 B.C.
Striding forward on a thin integral plinth with two tenons projecting from its underside, wearing a belted pleated kilt, necklace, false beard secured by a chin strap, and his characteristic headdress consisting of a conically-shaped crown with two tall ostrich plumes fronted by a solar disk, square sockets in the shoulders for the insertion of separately-cast and now-missing arms, with fine attention to the webbing of the belt, the beard's striations, and the eyes, nose and mouth of the full round face
11¼ in. (28.6 cm.) high, excluding tenons

Provenance

Swiss Private Collection, 1970s.
with Galerie Nefer, Zurich, early 1990s.
Acquired by the current owner in 2003.

Lot Essay

For related exceptionally accomplished bronzes of this period see Bianchi, "Egyptian Metal Statuary of the Third Intermediate Period (Circa 1070-656 B.C.) From Its Egyptian Antecedent to Its Samian Examples," in True and Podany, eds., The J. Paul Getty Museum. Small Bronze Sculpture from the Ancient World. For a similar example see also the Carnarvon Amun now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, p. 212 in Baines and Malek, Atlas of Ancient Egypt.

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