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LOT 0020
Egyptian Bronze Amun-Min-Kamutef Statuette
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
8 1/4 in. (538 grams total, 21 cm high including stand).
Modelled in the round as a votive ithyphallic figure wearing a double-plumed crown with a sun disc, holding a flail in his outstretched right hand and his erect phallus in the left; mounted on a custom-made display base.
Provenance
Acquired on the London art market.
Ex 'K' collection, 1990-2020s.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
Literature
Cf. The Royal Ontario Museum for a similar figure (inv. no. 910.17.14); cf. Daressy, G., Catalogue général des antiquitéségyptiennes du Musée du Caire N° 38001-39384 Statues de divinités, Cairo, 1906, pl. XXVII, no. 38479, for a similar example.
Footnotes
Amun-Min-Kamutef was a syncretic deity combining the attributes of Amun, the supreme god of the Egyptian pantheon, and Min who represents sexual procreation. The iconography of Amun's ithyphallic form Kamutef is essentially that of Min, and serves to emphasise the sexual prowess of the god. Kamutef means 'bull of his mother' and appears to refer both to Amun's sky-goddess mother in her cow form and to the bull's sexual prowess and strength.
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