Lot 166
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AN EGYPTIAN GOLD-INLAID BRONZE GROUP OF NEITH AND HER SON HORUS
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AN EGYPTIAN GOLD-INLAID BRONZE GROUP OF NEITH AND HER SON HORUS

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GOLD-INLAID BRONZE GROUP OF NEITH AND HER SON HORUS
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
7 ½ in. (19 cm.) high
Provenance
Mrs. H. S. collection, Switzerland, acquired prior to 1971.
Exhibited
On loan to the Antikenmuseum, Basel, 1971.
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Lot Essay

The rectangular base inscribed 'May Neith grant life, all prosperity, a long lifetime, a good old age for the revered one Tay-Neith daughter of Psamtek.'

The rectangular base inscribed 'May Neith grant life, all prosperity, a long lifetime, a good old age for the revered one Tay-Neith daughter of Psamtek.' For a similar group of Neith and two child deities dedicated to Ouahibreseneb now exhibited at the Louvre, cf. inv. no. E 7996.

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