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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS LACTANS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS LACTANS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
The seated goddess clad in a tightly-fitted dress, wearing striated tripartite wig, modius, vulture headdress and uraeus, offering her breast to the divine son Horus seated on her lap, wearing a skull-cap fronted by uraeus and the side lock of youth, her feet resting on a high integral plinth, with a hieroglyphic inscription, reading: 'Isis gives life to the scribe (...) son of Hapiu', mounted
4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm) high
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI-XXX, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
The seated goddess clad in a tightly-fitted dress, wearing striated tripartite wig, modius, vulture headdress and uraeus, offering her breast to the divine son Horus seated on her lap, wearing a skull-cap fronted by uraeus and the side lock of youth, her feet resting on a high integral plinth, with a hieroglyphic inscription, reading: 'Isis gives life to the scribe (...) son of Hapiu', mounted
4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm) high
Provenance
M. Fournier collection, France, acquired in 1927.
French private collection.
French private collection.
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