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LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE GROUP OF ISIS AND HORUS
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
The goddess depicted seated with her feet together, wearing a tightly-fitted sheath, broad collar, and striated tripartite wig, with a vulture headdress and a cobra-circlet modius supporting a solar disk framed by cow horns, cradling her nude divine son Horus, who wears a uraeus and the side lock of youth
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
The goddess depicted seated with her feet together, wearing a tightly-fitted sheath, broad collar, and striated tripartite wig, with a vulture headdress and a cobra-circlet modius supporting a solar disk framed by cow horns, cradling her nude divine son Horus, who wears a uraeus and the side lock of youth
7¼ in. (18.4 cm.) high
Provenance
European Private Collection, 1970s.