AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE BELL
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE BELL

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE BELL
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
In the form of an inverted lotus, with the striated overlapping petals in low relief, the crown a reeded suspension loop, perforated below, the iron clapper strung through a wire hooked through a perforation on either side, one side embellished with relief decoration comprising a head of a falcon wearing a striated tripartite headcloth, a falcon headed scepter below, adorned with a broad collar and a tripartite headcloth surmounted by a uraeus, flanked by two nefer signs before inward facing wedjat-eyes and conforming brows, the irises in "black" bronze, adorsed crocodiles along the lower rim
2½ in. (6.4 cm.) high
來源
with Summa Galleries, Los Angeles, 1982.
Thomas James Collins, Los Angeles.
Thereafter acquired by the current owner, New York.

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