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Lot 123*

An Egyptian gypsum figure of Isis and Horus

7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian gypsum figure of Isis and Horus
Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 664-332 B.C.
In typical pose seated on a throne, suckling the infant Horus on her lap, her left hand supporting his head, her right clutched to her breast, wearing a full length tunic, tripartite wig with frontal bronze uraeus and a collar of uraei above, pierced for attachment of the headdress now missing, her ears pierced, an old collection number 'SF 7370' painted in black, 23cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
The Harer Family Trust Collection.
Bonhams, 13 October 2006, lot 25.
With Superior Gallery, Los Angeles, 8-9 June 1993, lot 707.
Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Museum, Jerusalem, accession no. SF 7370.
Father Cleosus Steinhausen Collection, Cairo, 1900-1908.

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