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THE PROPERTY OF A WEST COAST COLLECTOR
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS
LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, 664-525 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS
LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, 664-525 B.C.
Depicted enthroned with her feet on an integral trapezoidal plinth, wearing a tightly-fitted sheath, anklets, bracelets, armlets, a broad collar, and a tripartite headcloth overlaid with a vulture headdress fronted by a uraeus, topped with a uraeus-circled modius supporting a solar disk and cow horns, her right hand at her left breast, the left hand originally supporting the child Horus, the palm with a circular tenon for his attachment, her lap abraded where he once sat, preserving some gilding on the solar disk
10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) high
LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, 664-525 B.C.
Depicted enthroned with her feet on an integral trapezoidal plinth, wearing a tightly-fitted sheath, anklets, bracelets, armlets, a broad collar, and a tripartite headcloth overlaid with a vulture headdress fronted by a uraeus, topped with a uraeus-circled modius supporting a solar disk and cow horns, her right hand at her left breast, the left hand originally supporting the child Horus, the palm with a circular tenon for his attachment, her lap abraded where he once sat, preserving some gilding on the solar disk
10 3/8 in. (26.3 cm.) high
Provenance
Baron Sidney Costantino Sonnino (1847-1922), Rome, twice Prime Minister of Italy.
A European Gentleman; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 9 December 1999, lot 397.
A European Gentleman; Antiquities, Christie's, New York, 9 December 1999, lot 397.
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