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1 May 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street£6,000 - £8,000
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An Egyptian bronze figure of Re-Horakhty
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
Depicted striding with his left leg advanced, wearing a shendyt kilt and broad collar, his left arm advanced to hold a staff, now missing, wearing a striated tripartite wig surmounted by sun disc with uraeus, 6in (15.1cm) high, mounted
Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
Depicted striding with his left leg advanced, wearing a shendyt kilt and broad collar, his left arm advanced to hold a staff, now missing, wearing a striated tripartite wig surmounted by sun disc with uraeus, 6in (15.1cm) high, mounted
Footnotes
Provenance:
English private collection A.B., acquired before 1930.
Literature:
The solar god Re-Horakhty was an important syncretic deity formed from Re and Horus to become 'Ra, who is Horus of the Two Horizons'. Re's cult centre was at Heliopolis. Cf. G. Roeder, Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, Berlin, 1956, Tafel 13.
























