LATE PERIOD - ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.-3RD CENTURY A.D.

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A GROUP OF FIVE EGYPTIAN ANTIQUITIES
LATE PERIOD - ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 6TH CENTURY B.C.-3RD CENTURY A.D.
5 1⁄2 in. (14 cm.) high max.

Provenance

Fridolin (1903-1969) and Halina (1907-1989) Schwitter-Lagutt Collection, Basel, all aquired prior to 1971.

Exhibited

On loan to the Antikenmuseum, Basel, 1971-2022.

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Lot Essay

The fragmentary seated bronze male figure is the moon god Jah wearing a headdress combining both a full and crescent moon fronted by a uraeus. The break at the top may suggest that it was also topped with an atef crown and ibis head like the figure in the Carlsberg Glyptotek (inv. no. 188) see M. Jorgensen, Catalogue Egypt IV Egyptian Bronzes,, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, 2009, pp. 50-53, no. 14.3.

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