LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE BASTET
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
The cat-headed goddess depicted standing on an integral plinth, wearing a tightly-fitted patterned sheath, her erect ears perforated, with a scarab incised on her forehead, her right arm bent at the elbow, holding a sistrum in her fisted hand, her left arm bent, holding the aegis of lion-headed Sekhmet at her chest
5 11/16 in. (14.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Antiquities, Sotheby's, London, 12 December 1983, lot 160.

Lot Essay

The iconographical representation of Bastet presented here is known as the "Housewife Bastet," and was popular during the Late Period and Ptolemaic period in Egyptian art (J. Malek, The Cat in Ancient Egypt pp. 104-6).

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