Lot 151
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AN EGYPTIAN INSCRIBED BRONZE FIGURE OF A KNEELING NAOPHOROS PRIEST
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AN EGYPTIAN INSCRIBED BRONZE FIGURE OF A KNEELING NAOPHOROS PRIEST

6TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN INSCRIBED BRONZE FIGURE OF A KNEELING NAOPHOROS PRIEST
6TH-4TH CENTURY B.C.
Shaven-headed, wearing broad collar, holding a naos with figure of Osiris(?) within, with inscribed back pillar, 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) high; a bronze pair figure of Anhur and Mekhit, the god wearing a four plumed crown standing beside his lioness-headed consort, Mekhit, who wears sun disk and uraeus, circa 4th-1st Century B.C., 3 in. (7.7 cm.) high; a bronze figure of a striding man, with short wig, Middle Kingdom or later, 4 in. (10.4 cm.) high; a bronze stamp seal of King Xerxes I, in the form of a cartouche surmounted by a sun disk and double plumes, with arched handle on the back, 485-465 B.C., 2½ in. (6.5 cm.) high; a bronze square seal, "Amen-re", 2nd-1st millennium B.C., ½ in. (1.3 cm.) sq.; a bronze openwork ankh (life)-sign, 1st millennium B.C., 1 3/8 in. (3.5 cm.) high; and a miniature wooden shrine, containing a late Dynasty XVIII faience 'bead', Graeco-Roman, circa 4th-1st Century B.C., 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) high (7)
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Lot Essay

Item two: Anhur (Onuris) "the one who leads back the distant one" journeyed to the south to bring back the lioness who became his consort Mekhit. His cult centre was at Sebennytos, and he was identified by the Greeks with Ares, god of war.

See illustration on page 90 for two items.

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