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THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD-LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXVI, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF WADJET
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD-LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXVI, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.
The seated goddess wearing a long close-fitting garment, wearing tripartite wig surmounted by double-plumes, cow horns, sun-disc and uraeus, her head with finely incised mane and whiskers, both her arms bent at the elbow, with clenched fists holding now missing attributes, her feet resting on a square plinth with an incised hieroglyphic inscription reading: "May Wadjet give life (to) the servant of Anubis Djediwefankh, son of the servant of Anubis Djedher, born of Wadjet (...)", mounted
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD-LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXVI, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.
The seated goddess wearing a long close-fitting garment, wearing tripartite wig surmounted by double-plumes, cow horns, sun-disc and uraeus, her head with finely incised mane and whiskers, both her arms bent at the elbow, with clenched fists holding now missing attributes, her feet resting on a square plinth with an incised hieroglyphic inscription reading: "May Wadjet give life (to) the servant of Anubis Djediwefankh, son of the servant of Anubis Djedher, born of Wadjet (...)", mounted
7½ in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
Baron H.W. Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1871-1942).
Collected by Mrs Elias-Vaes between the late 1960s and the early 1970s.
Collected by Mrs Elias-Vaes between the late 1960s and the early 1970s.
Literature
Exhibition catalogue, Bezeten Bezit, Historisch Museum, Rotterdam, 1970, cat. no. 703.
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