细节
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ATUM
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXI-XXII, 1070-712 B.C.
The god enthroned with his feet parallel on a rectangular plinth, his arms held out before him once holding now-missing attributes in his fisted hands, the left hand with the palm in, the right hand with the palm down, his torso bare, wearing a short pleated belted kit and a striated tripartite wig fronted by a uraeus and surmounted by the Double Crown, his false beard braided, the throne incised on either side with a feather pattern and the sma-tawy design representing the united Egypt, another sma-tawy design on the back of the throne, a textile draped over the top of the throne embroidered with the hieroglyph for sky (pt) and decorated with eight five-pointed stars indicating the heavens, a flying falcon below with human hands, wearing a solar-disk and holding feathers
14 5/8 in. (37.1 cm.) high