AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE NEITH

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE NEITH
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
5 ¾ in. (14.6 cm.) high

来源

with Aaron Gallery, London, acquired in Geneva, 7 January 1980.
Private Collection, U.K., acquired from the above, 1980.
Acquired by the current owner from the above, 2016.

拍品专文

This regal depiction of Neith is augmented by an elaborate inlaid gold broad-collar and silver-inlaid eyes. M. Viglaki-Sofianou notes (p. 109 in M. Hill, ed., Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples) that the popularity of the goddess "was closely linked to the rise of the powerful dynasty in Sais, her cult city, which ruled Egypt from 664-525 B.C. as the Saite (or Twenty-sixth) Dynasty." For a similar depiction of the goddess, see no. 26.7.846 in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

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