A FRAGMENTARY EGYPTIAN MAGNESITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A ISIS, 26TH/30TH DYNASTY, 664-342 B.C.
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A FRAGMENTARY EGYPTIAN MAGNESITE MARBLE FIGURE OF A ISIS, 26TH/30TH DYNASTY, 664-342 B.C.
seated on a fragmentary throne with forearms resting on the legs, the sides and back of the throne finely decorated, a frieze of ankhs flanked by was-scepters on the , the reverse with two incised registers, the upper depicting a ka falcon wearing a sun disc, the lower depicting the Nile gods of the North and the South pulling ropes around the symbol of unification.
Height 14.5 cm.
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Garcin Collection, formed between 1930s-1950s
French private collection, Paris
Bonhams, London, October 24th, 2012, no. 314, illus.