LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

This regal depiction of Neith is augmented by an elaborate inlaid gold broad-collar and silver-inlaid eyes. M. Viglaki-Sofianou notes (p. 109 in M. Hill, ed., Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples) that the popularity of the goddess "was closely linked to the rise of the powerful dynasty in Sais, her cult city, which ruled Egypt from 664-525 B.C. as the Saite (or Twenty-sixth) Dynasty." For a similar depiction of the goddess, see no. 26.7.846 in The Metropolitan Museum of Art.