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LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE BUST OF ISIS
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
Wearing striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress, crowned with a diadem of uraei, her right hand offering her breast to Horus (now missing), mounted
2 7/8 in. (7.5 cm.) high
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 7TH-6TH CENTURY B.C.
Wearing striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress, crowned with a diadem of uraei, her right hand offering her breast to Horus (now missing), mounted
2 7/8 in. (7.5 cm.) high
Provenance
Formerly in a Japanese private collection, acquired during the 1970s-1980s.
Special notice
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