Cat headed human standing with her left feet forward. Holding Aegis and basket, wearing nicely detailed dress.
The goddess Bastet was usually represented as a woman with the head of a domesticated cat. However, up until 1000 BC she was portrayed as a lioness. Bastet was the daughter of Re, the sun god. It may have been through him that she acquired her feline characteristics. When Re destroyed his enemy Apep, he was usually depicted as a cat. As portrayed as a cat, she was connected with the ...click for details
An Egyptian wood and bronze ibis. Depicted seated, the body sculpted in wood, some gesso left. The legs and the head each seperately cast of bronze.
Ibis, Regarded as the reincarnation of Thoth, the sacred ibis was sacred to the god of knowledge, who had the form of an ibis-headed man.
Period: 26th Dynasty
Provenance: Ex. German collection
Dimensions: 11 x 6,0 cm
Material: Bronze/wood
Condition: Very Good
Plaque recessed for inlay, showing the falcon Horus seated, wearing broad collar, tripartide wig and sun-disk and holding the Maat feather.Intact, 7,1 cm High, 26th - 30th Dynasty.
Double cobra with sundisk on head. This was probably adorning the crown of a large statue of a King or Queen. The sundisks are recessed for glass or semi precious stone inlay.
Period: c.1000B.C.
Dimensions: 3,4 x 2,5 cm
Material: Bronze
Condition: Good
Rare Egyptian bronze figure of Osiris,protected by a winged Isis on reserve and seated cat. Holding crook and flail and wearing plumed Atef crown with frontal uraeus, long braided beard, by his feet cat, reverse adorned by a protective winged standing figure of Isis, set on a integral base. Mounted on a modern black stand.
Height:10 cm, Period:c. 900 B.C.
A bronze left eye from a sarcophagus with original polished limestone and black paste center. Intact and in original condition. Mounted on a custom base.
Period:Late Period, c. 664 – 343 BC.
Provenance:American collection
Dimensions:7,5 x 2,3 cm
Material:Bronze
Condition:Good
Ancient Egyptian bronze Harpocrates standing with his left foot for, holding his left hand along his body and his left hand up pointing his finger to his mouth. He is wearing the crown from upper Egypt and has a child hair lock.Harpocrates, the child Horus, personifies the newborn sun each day, the first strength of the winter sun, and also the image of early vegetation. Egyptian statues represent the child Horus, pictured as a naked boy with his finger on his mouth.
Height: 5" . Provenanc ...click for details
A bronze statuette of the goddess Bastet, wearing aegis, and holding a small image of a standing god and a basket in her left arm. Very detailed with nice incising on her clothing, ears were originally pierced.
Mounted on a wooden base. Height; 2 ¾”.
Period; c. 664 – 525 BC.
Provenance; Private American collection.
