AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE WADJET-BAST
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE WADJET-BAST
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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE WADJET-BAST

LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.

细节
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE WADJET-BAST
LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.
12 in. (30.5 cm.) high
来源
French private collection, Burgundy, prior to 1983.
with Guy Ladrière, Paris.
Antiquities; Christie's, London, 11 December 1987, lot 128.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.
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, pp. 62-64, no. 41.
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 148, no. R-428.

In this example, the deity presents the characteristics of two powerful goddesses of Lower Egypt. The lion aspect represents Bast, or Bastet, the protector of Lower Egypt, whereas the rearing cobra fronting the sun-disc is associated with Wadjet, the deity originally from the Nile Delta region. Like many of the other gods, the ancient Egyptians brought together multiple aspects into one entity.

The low-backed throne on which she sits on is engraved with a Horus falcon and scale motives which continue around both sides. The motive refers to the raising of the child Horus in the papyrus thicket in the Delta site of Khemnis; as Wadjet was also referred to as the nurse of the young god.

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