PTOLEMAIC PERIOD (304-30 B.C.)
Details
A bronze figure of Tefnut or Sekhmet
Ptolemaic Period (304-30 B.C.)
The lioness-headed goddess striding with left leg advanced, her hands by her sides, wearing a long close-fitting dress and finely striated tripartite wig, crowned by a large sun-disk with central uraeus, repaired at feet
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
Ptolemaic Period (304-30 B.C.)
The lioness-headed goddess striding with left leg advanced, her hands by her sides, wearing a long close-fitting dress and finely striated tripartite wig, crowned by a large sun-disk with central uraeus, repaired at feet
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
Provenance
Purchased from the Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota, which had acquired the bronze from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York in 1958.