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An Egyptian bronze amuletic enthroned Horus the Child image 1
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The Resandro Collection of Ancient Art (Lots 14-49)
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An Egyptian bronze amuletic enthroned Horus the Child

The Classics Online: Antiquities, Clocks, European Ceramics
22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian bronze amuletic enthroned Horus the Child

Late Period, circa 664-332 B.C.
6cm high, 5cm deep

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Provenance:
Resandro collection, Europe, primarily formed late 1960s-1997 (R-443 (HB 13)).

Published:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p.152, no. R-443.

The child god depicted wearing the triple atef-crown with his characteristic side lock of youth, his throne flanked by prowling lions, their tails alert, with two Bes figures wearing tall plumes standing at the front end of the integral plinth. The combination of Horus the Child and Bes evokes the traditional iconography of a cippus, which also combines these deities, though this particular composition is exeedingly rare. A large bronze group of the same subject was sold at Sotheby's, New York, 11 December 2002, lot 108. Flinders Petrie records a small bronze amulet of Horus the Child striding and flanked by a lion, described as depicting 'Horus the Hunter' (Amulets, reprint 1972, pl. XXVI, no. 143).

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