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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ATUM, 25TH/26TH DYNASTY, 750-525 B.C. | An Egyptian Bronze Figure of Atum, 25th/26th Dynasty
估價
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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招標截止
描述
- bronze
- Height 14.3 cm.
the god appearing in the form of a cobra with human head and body of an eel, and wearing a braided beard, striated tripartite wig with ureaus, and the atef-crown with plumes resting on ram horns, a maat-feather supporting the hood of the cobra in back.
來源
Christos G. Bastis, New York (Sotheby's, New York, Antiquities from the Collection of the late Christos G. Bastis, December 9th, 1999, no. 9, illus.)
acquired from the above sale by the present owner
acquired from the above sale by the present owner
展覽
formerly on loan to The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1976-1999
出版
Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, catalogue of the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, no. 16, illus.
拍品資料及來源
The exhibition catalogue notes that:"The whole once formed the coffin for a sacred eel; part of the eel's body and a fragment of the top of the coffin are still preserved. The eel, as dweller of the primordial morass, was sacred to the god Atum."