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AN EGYPTIAN GOLD OXYRHYNCHUS FISH AMULET
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AN EGYPTIAN GOLD OXYRHYNCHUS FISH AMULET

LATE NEW KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1150-350 B.C.

細節
AN EGYPTIAN GOLD OXYRHYNCHUS FISH AMULET
LATE NEW KINGDOM-LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1150-350 B.C.
The slender fish wearing a triple-beaded collar and a sun-disc between Hathor's horns, the dorsal and caudal fins with details incised, pectoral fins of applied wire, eyes recessed for inlays, now missing
1½ in. (3.9 cm.) long
來源
The Groppi Collection, Switzerland; acquired in the 1920s-1940s.
展覽
Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, 2008, no. 69.
注意事項
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price and at 20% on the buyer's premium.

拍品專文

PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 124, no. 69.

In the myth of Osiris, after he has been killed and cut into pieces by his brother Seth, his phallus falls in the Nile and is devoured by a fish. Implored by Isis, it releases the phallus so that she can conceive her son Horus. The fish, a symbol of fertility, was named oxyrhynchus because of the site where it was worshipped in Middle Egypt.