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THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXX, 1070-343 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXX, 1070-343 B.C.
Solid cast, the goddess depicted seated, her feet resting on a square integral plinth, with a tenon below, the sides inscribed in hieroglyphs reading in part, "...Isis...Pef-tjau-Bastet(?)...ityi(?)," clad in a tightly-fitted sheath, wearing a broad collar, a striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress, its wings spread behind her ears, fronted by a uraeus and crowned with a cobra-modius supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, her face with large lidded eyes, a straight nose and fleshy lips pursed into a slight smile, 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
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high excluding tenon
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXX, 1070-343 B.C.
Solid cast, the goddess depicted seated, her feet resting on a square integral plinth, with a tenon below, the sides inscribed in hieroglyphs reading in part, "...Isis...Pef-tjau-Bastet(?)...ityi(?)," clad in a tightly-fitted sheath, wearing a broad collar, a striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress, its wings spread behind her ears, fronted by a uraeus and crowned with a cobra-modius supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, her face with large lidded eyes, a straight nose and fleshy lips pursed into a slight smile, 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
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high excluding tenon
Provenance
Private Collection, acquired in the late 1970s.