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PROPERTY FROM A TENNESSEE PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
The goddess seated with her feet resting on an integral trapezoidal plinth, clad in a tightly-fitted sheath, her echeloned tripartite wig and vulture headdress crowned with a modius of uraei supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, her left hand supporting his back, Horus wearing a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus, his side lock of youth with incised details
5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) high
LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C.
The goddess seated with her feet resting on an integral trapezoidal plinth, clad in a tightly-fitted sheath, her echeloned tripartite wig and vulture headdress crowned with a modius of uraei supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, her left hand supporting his back, Horus wearing a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus, his side lock of youth with incised details
5 7/8 in. (14.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Tennessee Collector, acquired in Egypt, 1950s.
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