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Egyptian Bronze Statue of a Kneeling Priest Egyptian Bronze Statue of a Kneeling Priest Egyptian Bronze Statue of a Kneeling Priest
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LOT 0515

Egyptian Bronze Statue of a Kneeling Priest

LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.

1 1/8 in. (41 grams total, statue: 30 mm high).

Kneeling on a rectangular platform with a wide apron covering his thighs, clean-shaven head and hands raised in adoration; tang on the underside for attachment; mounted on a display stand.

Provenance

From an early 20th century Home Counties, UK, collection.

Literature

Cf. Roeder, G., Ägyptische Bronzefiguren II, Berlin, 1956, pl. 47f-h, for bronze kneeling priest figurines in a similar pose.

Footnotes

Priest figurines like this were commonly placed before a larger figurine of a deity, both attached to a base, e.g., Schulz, R., Seidel, M., Egyptian Art. The Walters Art Museum, London, 2009, for a kneeling priest before a standing figure of Anubis.

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LOT 0515

Egyptian Bronze Statue of a Kneeling Priest

Estimate £250 - 350€290 - 410 (for guidance only)$340 - 470 (for guidance only)

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