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PROPERTY OF PROFESSOR AND MRS. SID PORT
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF BASTET
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF BASTET
Late Period to Ptolemaic Period,
664-30 B.C.
Striding with the left leg advanced on an integral base with two tangs for insertion into a now-missing plinth, the cat-headed goddess wearing a tightly-fitted sheath incised and stippled in imitation of a patterned textile, her right arm raised, her left hand holding a feline-headed aegis at her chest
5 in. (12.5 cm) high
Late Period to Ptolemaic Period,
664-30 B.C.
Striding with the left leg advanced on an integral base with two tangs for insertion into a now-missing plinth, the cat-headed goddess wearing a tightly-fitted sheath incised and stippled in imitation of a patterned textile, her right arm raised, her left hand holding a feline-headed aegis at her chest
5 in. (12.5 cm) high
Provenance
Susette Khayat, 1964
Greta S. Heckett, Pittsburgh
Fine Egyptian, Classical, Western Asiatic and Islamic Antiquities, Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 21 May 1977, lot 298
Greta S. Heckett, Pittsburgh
Fine Egyptian, Classical, Western Asiatic and Islamic Antiquities, Sotheby Parke Bernet New York, 21 May 1977, lot 298
Literature
Verdier, Ancient Bronzes, a Selection from the Heckett Collection, no. 57.
Exhibited
Carnegie Institute, 5 November 1964 to 10 January 1965