AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OXYRYNCHOS FISH
This lot is offered without reserve. Property from the Paul and Helen Zuckerman Collection
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OXYRYNCHOS FISH

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1070-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE OXYRYNCHOS FISH
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1070-30 B.C.
With a long tapering head and a forked tail, wearing a modius fronted by a uraeus, surmounted by a solar disk framed by cow horns, a suspension loop behind, on an integral sledge; together with three Egyptian objects, including a seated Isis, crowned with a modius fronted by a uraeus, supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her now-missing son Horus; an ithyphallic bronze Min, depicted mummiform, his left hand on his phallus, his right arm raised holding a flail on high; and a miniature faience shabti
5½ in. (14 cm.) long (4)
Provenance
Fish and Isis: with Tarshish, J. Zadok & Son, Jerusalem, 1981.
Min and Shabti: Acquired by Paul and Helen Zuckerman, Detroit, 1960s-1970s.
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