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    • AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
    Lot 27

    AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF

    ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.

    Price realised

    USD 8,125

    Estimate

    USD 6,000 - USD 8,000

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    AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
    ROMAN PERIOD, CIRCA 1ST-3RD CENTURY A.D.
    Preserving the right-most portion, sculpted in high relief with a sacred cobra facing right, the body undulating, the head raised with the hood spread, a bundle, perhaps representing a basket, tied on his head with two trailing streamers, the scales indicated by a pattern of raised knobs, the hood with incised details, the eye circular
    11½ in. (29.2 cm.) high

    Provenance

    Collected by Gustave Jéquier (1868-1946).

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    Lot Essay

    For reliefs depicting the sacred serpent, Agathodaimon, often paired with Isis-Thermouthis, see nos. 6ff. in Dunand, "Agathodaimon" in LIMC.

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