Lot 128
128
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE NEHEMETAUI
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE NEHEMETAUI

LATE PERIOD, 25TH-26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.

Details
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE NEHEMETAUI
LATE PERIOD, 25TH-26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.
Seated on a throne, wearing a tight ankle-length dress with broad collar, armlets and bracelets, wearing a tripartite echeloned wig overlaid with vulture headdress fronted by a uraeus, with cobra-headed modius below a crown in the shape of a shrine-shaped sistrum sound-box, with one hand held to her left breast, the other raised supporting the child Harpocrates who sits on her lap
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Horst and Luise Foehr collection, Cairo and Bonn.
Aussereuropäische Kunst und Ausgrabungen, Lempertz, Cologne, 21 November 1967, lot 65.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.
Exhibited
Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägypischer Kunst, Entdeckungen, Ägyptische Kunst in Süddeutschland, 30 August-6 October 1985.
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst Munchen; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.

Brought to you by

Chanel Clarke
Chanel Clarke
+44 (0)20 7752 3331

Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Schoske & Wildung, 1985, p. 115, no. 95.
Schoske & Wildung, 1993, p. 160, no. 109.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 154, no. R-452.

For a seated figure of Nehemetaui or Nebethetepet see acc. no. 26.7.845 in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. The sistrum crown is identified with either Nehemetaui, the consort of Thoth, or Nebethetept, the female counterpart to Atum and closely associated with the goddess Hathor.

More from The Resandro Collection

View All
View All