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Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
2 1/2 in. (44.2 grams, 64 mm).
Modelled in a dynamic pose on a rectangular base, muscular body and striated dewlap, curving horns decorated with black glaze framing the face, three large black dots on the back with further black detailing to the front hooves and tail.
PROVENANCE:
Private collection of Mr K.A., acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s.
Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate no.2922.WW, dated 5 June 2007.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
LITERATURE:
Cf. Tinius, I., Altägypten in Braunschweig. Die Sammlungen des Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museums und des Städtischen Museums, Wiesbaden, 2011, p. 156, no. 293, for a similar form.
FOOTNOTES:
Various gods were depicted as rams. The downturned horns on this amulet indicate that the ram represents Amun. The ram was symbolically linked to ideas of revival and fertility, which, over time, became associated with Osiris and was also viewed as the god's soul or ba.
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