AN EGYPTIAN SILVER NEFERTUM
AN EGYPTIAN SILVER NEFERTUM

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

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AN EGYPTIAN SILVER NEFERTUM
LATE PERIOD-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 664-30 B.C.
3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) high
来源
Horst and Luise Föehr collection, Cairo and Bonn.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above prior to 1973.
展览
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.

拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
S. Schoske and D. Wildung, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, Mainz am Rhein, 1993, p. 130, no. 90.
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 164, no. R-489.

The rectangular base is inscribed on the underside with two columns of text mentioning the goddess Isis and the dedicant Psamtek, son of Padihor.

Nefertum is the god of the lotus blossom which, according to Egyptian mythology, emerged from the primeval waters of creation. Because of his attribute he is often associated with perfumes (R. H. Wilkinson, The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt, London, 2003, pp. 133-135). For a similar but larger silver figure of Nefertum, cf. K.-H. Priese, Ägyptisches Museum, Mainz, 1991, p. 227, no. 136.

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