AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE BARBEL
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE BARBEL

LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE BARBEL
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
Slender in form, the the elongated body, forked tail, triangular dorsal fin and smaller rectangular anal fin incised with gills, with circular eyes and a closed articulated mouth, a tenon below
4 in. (10 cm.) long
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, London, 4 December 1978, lot 91.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.
Exhibited
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst Munchen; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Schoske & Wildung, 1993, p. 83, no. 56.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 161, no. R-479.

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