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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HATHOR SISTRUM browse these categories for related items... All Items: Antiques: Regional Art: Ancient World: Egyptian: Bronze: Pre AD 1000: item # 1125975 Please refer to our stock # 20.799 when inquiring.
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| A bronze Hathorique sistrum showing Hathorheads on both sides below heer head a beaded collar. The sides of the sistrum are decorated with 2 Uraei one with the crown of Lower Egypt the other with the crown of Upper Egypt. A sistrum (Egyptian: sekhem) is a percussion musical instrument that was first used in ancient Egypt. It was an important instrument for dances and religious ceremonies (especially in the worship of the goddess Hathor). It was also used to avoid the area around the Nile would flood and Seth scare. The sistrum is the precursor of the tambourine. Dating:.....Late Period 664 - 32 BC .......Condition: Fragmentary as shown Size: 98 mm high .......Provenance: Private USA colletion collected before 1980........ Reference: Catalogue general des antiquites egyptiennes du musee de caire 1949 pl XLVII nr 69315 | ||||||||||
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