PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 323-30 B.C.

细节

AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME STUCCO APIS BULL HEAD PROTOME
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 323-30 B.C.
8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) high

来源

Private collection, Germany, acquired prior to 1980.
Property from a European Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 14 June 2000, lot 220.
with Jean-David Cahn, Basel, 2001 (Tiere und Mischwesen II, Katalog 13, no. 90).
Antiquities, Christie's, London, 2 April 2014, lot 57.

出版

W. Hornbostel, Aus Gräbern und Heiligtümern. Die Antikensammlung Walter Kropatschek, Mainz, 1980, p. 276 f., no. 158.

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拍品专文

The white triangle over the forehead is characteristic of an Apis bull and together with the horns and a sun-disc would have produced the figure of an Ankh-sign. The lolling tongue would suggest that this represents a sacrificial bull, whose skulls were often displayed to serve as fertility symbols.

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 323-30 B.C.

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