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THE PROPERTY OF A TEXAS COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, 664-343 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX,
664-343 B.C.
Solid cast, the goddess depicted seated, clad in a tightly-fitted sheath, adorned with bracelets, armlets and a broad collar, her striated tripartite wig fronted by a uraeus and crowned with a cobra-modius supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, his head cradled by her left hand, wearing a broad collar, a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus and the side lock of youth, two tenons below for insertion
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high excluding tenons
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX,
664-343 B.C.
Solid cast, the goddess depicted seated, clad in a tightly-fitted sheath, adorned with bracelets, armlets and a broad collar, her striated tripartite wig fronted by a uraeus and crowned with a cobra-modius supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, his head cradled by her left hand, wearing a broad collar, a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus and the side lock of youth, two tenons below for insertion
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high excluding tenons
Provenance
with Hakim Egyptian Art, New York, 1959.