Hollow cast bronze figure of a baboon squatting on a stepped plinth.
The animal is seated on his haunches with the forepaws on his knees. The tail is drawn around the body to his right, the genitalia are exposed.
The cape-like mass of fur is incised with dotted scales. Skin folds along the forepaws and on the sides.
...click for details
Cast bronze statuette of Apis striding on a rectangular base. The sacred bull carries the solar disk with uraeus between the horns and shows an incised triangle on the brow.
On the back the usual saddle cloth framed by open-winged scarabs. The heavy neck with an incised broad collar.
Apis was worshipped as a manifestation of the Memp ...click for details
Bronze lion with open roaring mouth, ruff-like mane and a curling line rendering the musculature on the shoulder.
Nice facial details and laid-back ears. A square nozzle at rear.
The style is characteristic of Persian-period depictions of lions from Egypt and allows a dating to the Achaemenid empire.
...click for details
Seated bronze cat with arched back and noble posture of the head. The tail curled around to the right forepaw.
The head with engraved mouth and large eyes, the erect ears with incised details. The front of the forepaws striated.
The animal is wearing a necklace with a rudimentary Eye of Horus pendant.
...click for details
The slender cat-headed woman wears a short-sleeved and tightly-fitting long garment decorated with criss-crossed panels between vertical stripes.
The goddess holds a lion-headed aegis with sun-disc and uraeus in front of her chest. The usual basket on the crook of her left arm and the sistrum on the outstretched right are lost.
Recessed eyes to bear inlays (?)
For related figures cf. items UC8091 and UC42569 in the Petrie Museum.
Bronze.
Egyptian, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 BC.
H. 8.8 cm (3.5 i ...click for details
Bronze figurine of Nefertum, the Egyptian god of perfumes and unguents. Nefertum wears the lotus blossom crown topped by two large plumes and with two menyet counterpoises on the sides. The crown is placed over a tripartite wig with an uraeus at the brow. The figure wears his customary shendyt kilt and a braided beard.
Carefully modeled in the round with a suspension loop behind the crown.
Nefertum was regarded as the son of Sekhmet and Ptah. Together, this triad formed the divine family of th ...click for details
Bronze lion-headed Sakhmet wearing a sun disc and uraeus headdress. Striated tripartite wig.
The goddess is squatting with her knees drawn up to the chest and is wearing a tight fitted dress that reduces her body to a block-like shape.
Block statues are a characteristic Egyptian creation that first emerged during the Middle Kingdom.
Sakhmet was originally the warrior goddess, but also considered to be a healer and protectress against epidemics.
Bronze.
Egyptian, Late Period, 712-30 BC.
H. ...click for details
Bronze cat seated on haunches with two small kittens at her feet, both encircled by the curled tail.
The cat’s ears pierced and adorned with tiny gold earrings. Loop for suspension on the back.
Cats were associated to Bastet, the cat-headed goddess of Bubastis, patroness of women and a goddess of maternity.
For similar cats in the Petrie Museum Oxford cf. items no. UC36440, UC62229 and UC62228.
Bronze.
Egyptian, Late Period, 712-30 BC.
H. 6 cm (2.36 in).
Fine example with nice green and c ...click for details
Fine Egyptian mirror with thin ellipsoidal disk. The pointed tang broken and repaired in antiquity.
For a comparable mirror cf. no. 788 in: J. Vandier d’Abbadie. Catalogue des objets de toilette égyptiens au Musée du Louvre. Paris 1972.
Bronze.
Egyptian, New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC.
W. 11.6 cm (4.55 in), H. 18.3 cm (7.2 in).
Tang broken and reattached. Otherwise very good overall condition with attractive patina on both sides. Interesting old repair.
Koller Auktionen Zurich, September 2009 s ...click for details
Pristine Egyptian mirror with almost round disk. The tang stepped at the joint to the disk, the spur with one gouged side.
The average thickness of 5 mm gives the piece a weight of 662 g.
For a closely related mirror cf. no. 778 in: J. Vandier d’Abbadie. Catalogue des objets de toilette égyptiens au Musée du Louvre. Paris 1972.
Bronze.
Egyptian, New Kingdom, 1550-1069 BC.
D. 14.2 (5.6 in), H. 18.5 cm (7.3 in), H. with stand 22.3 cm (8.8 in).
Museum quality and condition. Pristine patina. ...click for details
