A Bronze Figure of the Goddess Wadjet, 21st/30th Dynasty, 1075-342 B.C.

the lion-headed goddess enthroned with her hands held before her and probably once holding the ankh and was-scepter, her feet resting on a footrest engraved in front with an inscription translating "May Wadjet give life to Prbkhr(?), son of Hor," and wearing a long close-fitting dress reaching to the ankles, broad collar, and tripartite wig of echeloned rectangular curls surmounted by a pierced tenon for attachment of her crown, her powerfully modeled face with finely incised whiskers, the sides of the throne finely engraved on each side with a scale pattern and the union of the plants of Upper and Lower Egypt, each within a block border with a cross-hatched lattice motif above, the back of the throne (very worn) engraved in the upper register with the Horus Falcon, his wings spread and wearing the sun-disk with uraeus, a papyrus flower(?) held in the left talon, the lower register with a barely visible design with horizontal zigzag bands below.

Christie's, London, December 12th, 1984, no. 224, illus.

Jacques F. Aubert and Liliane Aubert, Bronzes et or égyptiens, Paris, 2001, p. 200

For  other large seated bronze figures of the goddess Wadjet compare Roeder, Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, pls. 42i-k and 43f-g, and Jacques Vandier, Ouadjet et l'Horus léontocéphale de Bouto, Paris, 1967, passim. Also compare the bronze figure of lion-headed Horus from the Ternbach Collection (Sotheby's, New York, November 24th-25th, 1987, no. 30), and the figure of Horus from the Abemayor estate (Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, December 11th, 1976, no. 290). In the Late Period bronze figures of this goddess were sometimes used as ichneumon sarcophagi.