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LOT 0411
Phoenician Bronze Statuette of Baal
1ST MILLENNIUM B.C.
2 3/4 in. (21.4 grams, 71 mm).
Modelled striding on an oval base, wearing a long kilt, broad collar, short wig and tall headdress, his right hand raised and touching the headdress; remains of suspension loop behind the headdress.
ProvenanceFrom the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
LiteratureCf. Andrews, C., Amulets of Ancient Egypt, London, 1994, p. 17, fig. 12b, for discussion and example.
FootnotesThe raised arm of this figure would originally have held a spear characteristic of Inhert.
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Large Egyptian Red Stone Scarab
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
Plano-convex in section, carved in the half-round scarab with segmented carapace; underside plain. 56.6 grams, 42 mm
with Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983. Ex private North American collection. London private collection, 2016. -
Egyptian Amulet Bead Collection
Late Period, 664-332 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Group of amuletic beads and pendants including a wedjat-eye, Horus in falcon form, a seated Bastet, Bes playing a tambourine, and other types. 3.3 grams total, 8-19.5 mm
with Archaeologia, Switzerland, before 1983. Ex private North American collection. London private collection, 2016. -
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Egyptian Bronze Head of a Cat
Late-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,820
The head of goddess Bastet modelled in the round with alert ears and eyes, ears pierced; hollow-formed. 40.4 grams, 33.6 mm high
Acquired in the mid 1990s. Private collection, Switzerland, thence by descent. Private collection, since the late 1990s.
The feline's pierced ears likely once held earrings or other ornaments. It was probably attached to a statuette of a cat, whose body may have been crafted from wood. The cat was sacred to Bastet, a protective mother goddess and the daughter of the sun god Re. Amulets provided the wearer with the goddess's protection. Her name means ‘she of the bast [ointment jar],’ which may have contained a substance favoured by or exclusive to royalty. Originally, Bastet was depicted as a woman with the head of a lioness, but by the late New Kingdom, she was typically shown with a cat's head. She is sometimes portrayed with kittens, emphasising her maternal role as a fierce protector of her offspring.
