AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE NEHEMETAUI

LATE PERIOD, 25TH-26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE NEHEMETAUI
LATE PERIOD, 25TH-26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.
Seated on a throne, wearing a tight ankle-length dress with broad collar, armlets and bracelets, wearing a tripartite echeloned wig overlaid with vulture headdress fronted by a uraeus, with cobra-headed modius below a crown in the shape of a shrine-shaped sistrum sound-box, with one hand held to her left breast, the other raised supporting the child Harpocrates who sits on her lap
9 ¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high

來源

Horst and Luise Foehr collection, Cairo and Bonn.
Aussereuropäische Kunst und Ausgrabungen, Lempertz, Cologne, 21 November 1967, lot 65.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above sale.

展覽

Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägypischer Kunst, Entdeckungen, Ägyptische Kunst in Süddeutschland, 30 August-6 October 1985.
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst Munchen; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.

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Chanel Clarke

cclarke@christies.com +44 (0)20 7752 3331

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PUBLISHED:
Schoske & Wildung, 1985, p. 115, no. 95.
Schoske & Wildung, 1993, p. 160, no. 109.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 154, no. R-452.

For a seated figure of Nehemetaui or Nebethetepet see acc. no. 26.7.845 in the Metropolitan Museum, New York. The sistrum crown is identified with either Nehemetaui, the consort of Thoth, or Nebethetept, the female counterpart to Atum and closely associated with the goddess Hathor.

LATE PERIOD, 25TH-26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 747-525 B.C.

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