AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE HEAD OF A QUEEN OR GODDESS

LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV, 712-657 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE HEAD OF A QUEEN OR GODDESS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV, 712-657 B.C.
Depicted wearing a tripartite wig, its surface recessed and its edges raised to accommodate inlays, with a raised vertical strut at the forehead for attachment, presumably of a uraeus, the wig surmounted by a cylindrical projection serving as the foundation for a modius, with a broad face, her eyes and brows deeply recessed for now-missing inlays, with a slender nose and smiling lips, her ears prominent, the flesh of her face and the zone between the lappets of her wig stippled, presumably for gold overlay, a perforated rectangular tenon on the reverse for attachment
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high

來源

with Marianne Maspero, Paris, 1992.

展覽

San Bernardino, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, periodically until August 2005.

拍品專文

This impressive bronze may once have been part of a large aegis placed on the bow of a sacred bark. The style of the face and wig finds a close parallel in the famous granite statue of Amenirdas I, the Kushite royal who served as "God's Wife of Amen" in Thebes. See no. 48 in Capel and Markoe, eds., Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven, Women in Ancient Egypt.