AN EGYPTIAN SANDSTONE STELE FOR HORUS AND SOBEK

LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN SANDSTONE STELE FOR HORUS AND SOBEK
LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD-ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST CENTURY B.C.
Sculpted in sunken relief, with the Pharaoh wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt, presenting two nw-vases as wine offerings to the falcon-headed Horus wearing the Double crown, and the crocodile-headed Sobek, both holding was-sceptres and ankh-crosses, a winged sun-disc with uraei above
18 in. (45.7 cm.) high

Provenance

Probably from Kom Ombo.
Private collection, Hamburg, acquired prior to 1977; and thence by descent to the present owner.

Exhibited

Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Kunst der Antike: Schätze aus norddeutschem Privatbesitz, 21 January-6 March 1977.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
W. Hornbostel, Kunst der Antike - Schätze aus norddeutschem Privatbesitz, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Mainz, 1977, cat. no. 22.

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