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LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ISIS AND HORUS
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
The goddess seated with the child Horus on her lap, wearing close fitting long dress, striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress, crowned with a diadem of uraei, remains of gilding, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high; an Egyptian bronze cat, seated with ears erect, tail curled around right side, with encrusted surface, 3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high; and an Egyptian bronze figure of Osiris, depicted mummiform, holding a crook and a flail, wearing a plumed atef-crown fronted by a uraeus, in two parts, 4 in. (10 cm.) high, both Late Period to Ptolemaic, 664-30 B.C., all mounted (3)
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
The goddess seated with the child Horus on her lap, wearing close fitting long dress, striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress, crowned with a diadem of uraei, remains of gilding, 6 in. (15.2 cm.) high; an Egyptian bronze cat, seated with ears erect, tail curled around right side, with encrusted surface, 3¼ in. (8.3 cm.) high; and an Egyptian bronze figure of Osiris, depicted mummiform, holding a crook and a flail, wearing a plumed atef-crown fronted by a uraeus, in two parts, 4 in. (10 cm.) high, both Late Period to Ptolemaic, 664-30 B.C., all mounted (3)
Provenance
Acquired by John Clevland in the mid-19th Century, and thence by descent to the present owner.
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