A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE STRIDING GOD NEFERHOTEP, wearing a double crown perched on top of his short curly layered wig, with uraeus in front, with traces of gilding on the eyes, wearing an Osirid-type false beard, broad collar and shendyet-kilt, his left arm raised, his right arm by his side, both fists clenched holding unidentifiable objects, now missing, an inscription lightly chased around the rectangular base reads: "May Nef[er]hotep give life to Iy-ir-ptah, son of Padi-Neith"

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A BRONZE FIGURE OF THE STRIDING GOD NEFERHOTEP, wearing a double crown perched on top of his short curly layered wig, with uraeus in front, with traces of gilding on the eyes, wearing an Osirid-type false beard, broad collar and shendyet-kilt, his left arm raised, his right arm by his side, both fists clenched holding unidentifiable objects, now missing, an inscription lightly chased around the rectangular base reads: "May Nef[er]hotep give life to Iy-ir-ptah, son of Padi-Neith"
circa 4th Century B.C.
9¼in. (23.6cm.) high

拍品專文

Neferhotep is a personification of Khonsu in Thebes and his name means "perfect of propitiation"
Cf. G. Steindorff, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1946, pl. LXXXIII, no. 528 for a wig of triangular curls arranged in concentric circles