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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE ISIS AND HORUS
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
The goddess seated with her feet parallel on a low integral plinth, clad in a tightly-fitted sheath, her striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress crowned with a modius of uraei supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, her left hand supporting his back, Horus wearing a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus and the plaited side lock of youth, a necklace with pendant amulets incised on his chest
4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXVI, 664-525 B.C.
The goddess seated with her feet parallel on a low integral plinth, clad in a tightly-fitted sheath, her striated tripartite wig and vulture headdress crowned with a modius of uraei supporting cow horns framing a solar disk, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, her left hand supporting his back, Horus wearing a cap-crown fronted by a uraeus and the plaited side lock of youth, a necklace with pendant amulets incised on his chest
4¾ in. (12.1 cm.) high
Provenance
Deaccessioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1957 (MMA 90.6.67).
Acquired by the current owner's father, 1958; thence by descent.
Acquired by the current owner's father, 1958; thence by descent.
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