AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE WADJET-BAST

LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE WADJET-BAST
LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.
The seated lion-headed goddess wearing a close-fitting dress and broad collar, striated tripartite wig and sun-disc fronted by a uraeus, her fisted palms once holding now missing attributes, her well-modelled head with incised mane and whiskers, her eyes inlaid with silver, her feet on an integral trapezoidal foot rest with hieroglyphs on all four sides reading: 'May Wadjet give life to Djehuty-em-wia son of ...'
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high

來源

Anonymous sale, Sotheby's New York, 11-12 July 1983, lot 178.
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

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PUBLISHED:
Schoske & Wildung, 1985, p 89, no. 70.
Schoske and & Wildung, 1993, p. 129, no. 89.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, no. R-371.

For a discussion of bronze representations of the lion-headed goddess Wadjet-Bast see the footnote for lot 135.

LATE PERIOD, 26TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 664-525 B.C.

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