A BRONZE STATUETTE OF AN OXYRYNCHUS FISH, with small figure of a libation priest kneeling before it, the fish wearing crown composed of disc between cows' horns and uraeus, on a rectangular stand in turn mounted on a plinth, Late Period, 7th-5th Century B.C.

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A BRONZE STATUETTE OF AN OXYRYNCHUS FISH, with small figure of a libation priest kneeling before it, the fish wearing crown composed of disc between cows' horns and uraeus, on a rectangular stand in turn mounted on a plinth, Late Period, 7th-5th Century B.C.
4in. (10.1cm.) long

Lot Essay

For similar, c.f., Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Le Don du Nil, 1978, no. 336

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