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A small Egyptian bronze situla decorated with a procession of deities image 1
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The Resandro Collection of Ancient Art (Lots 14-49)
Lot 44*

A small Egyptian bronze situla decorated with a procession of deities

22 November – 9 December 2024, 12:00 GMT
Online, London, New Bond Street

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A small Egyptian bronze situla decorated with a procession of deities

Ptolemaic Period, circa 332-30 B.C.
8.3cm high

Footnotes

Provenance:
Resandro collection, Europe, primarily formed late 1960s-1997 (R-740).

Published:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p.226, no. R-740.

Above the central frieze of processing deities is a register with solar barques interspersed with lotus flower leaves, and the mammiform base is in the form of a lotus flower; all the decoration is in raised relief. For the type, see G.D. Scott, III, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, p. 57, no. 29.

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