AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE APIS BULL

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE APIS BULL
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
Striding forward, its eyes inlaid with electrum, wearing a sun-disc between its horns fronted by a uraeus, the body with incised characteristic decoration, including a triangle on the brow inlaid with silver, necklaces, a winged scarab on the back of its neck, a cross-hatched tasselled blanket with two central scarabs on the back, and a winged vulture on the hindquarters, the integral rectangular plinth, with hieroglyphic text running around the front and right side, reading: 'May the Osiris Apis give a long life and beautiful age to Amenu-anet, son of Djedhor, born of Neithirdis'
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Anonymous sale; Münzen und Medaillen AG, Basel, 28 April 1972, lot 68.

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.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Winter, 1983, no. 14.
Schoske & Wildung, 1985, p. 128, no. 110.
Schoske & Wildung, 1993, p. 95, no. 65.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 159, no. R-472.

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