Lot Essay
For a similar example see no. 91 in Friedman, Gifts of the Nile, Ancient Egyptian Faience.
.jpg?w=1)
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN FAIENCE SISTRUM
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
Green and blue in color, depicting the cow-eared goddess Hathor with an elaborate broad collar, each side of her head flanked with a uraeus, surmounted by a cavetto molding originally supporting a naos, with a uraeus topped with a solar-disk in each panel, the columnar handle inscribed "the good god, the Lord of the Two Lands, Psametik, the son of the sun, Wahibre...sa...Neith, living Forever"
9 in. (22.9 cm) high
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
Green and blue in color, depicting the cow-eared goddess Hathor with an elaborate broad collar, each side of her head flanked with a uraeus, surmounted by a cavetto molding originally supporting a naos, with a uraeus topped with a solar-disk in each panel, the columnar handle inscribed "the good god, the Lord of the Two Lands, Psametik, the son of the sun, Wahibre...sa...Neith, living Forever"
9 in. (22.9 cm) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 11 July 1988, lot 52
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 12 June 1997, lot 339
Crescent Gallery, Tokyo
Antiquities, Sotheby's London, 12 June 1997, lot 339
Crescent Gallery, Tokyo