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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Solid cast, the goddess seated with her feet on an integral plinth with a tenon below, clad in a tightly-fitted sheath and a broad-collar, her striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress crowned with a modius of uraei supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, her left hand supporting his head, Horus wearing a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus, his side lock of youth with incised details, the base inscribed with hieroglyphic text, reading: "Isis, Giver of life (to) Hap-neshmet(?), son of Pedi-djed-sen(?), borne by Ta(?)-kari"
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
Solid cast, the goddess seated with her feet on an integral plinth with a tenon below, clad in a tightly-fitted sheath and a broad-collar, her striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress crowned with a modius of uraei supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, her left hand supporting his head, Horus wearing a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus, his side lock of youth with incised details, the base inscribed with hieroglyphic text, reading: "Isis, Giver of life (to) Hap-neshmet(?), son of Pedi-djed-sen(?), borne by Ta(?)-kari"
10½ in. (26.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, Canada, 1960s.
A Canadian Private Collector; Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1997, lot 69.
A Canadian Private Collector; Sotheby's, New York, 17 December 1997, lot 69.
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