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AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF ATUM, 25TH/26TH DYNASTY, 750-525 B.C. | An Egyptian Bronze Figure of Atum, 25th/26th Dynasty
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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Description
- bronze
- Height 14.3 cm.
the god appearing in the form of a cobra with human head and body of an eel, and wearing a braided beard, striated tripartite wig with ureaus, and the atef-crown with plumes resting on ram horns, a maat-feather supporting the hood of the cobra in back.
Provenance
Christos G. Bastis, New York (Sotheby's, New York, Antiquities from the Collection of the late Christos G. Bastis, December 9th, 1999, no. 9, illus.)
acquired from the above sale by the present owner
acquired from the above sale by the present owner
Exhibited
formerly on loan to The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1976-1999
Literature
Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, catalogue of the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, no. 16, illus.
Catalogue Note
The exhibition catalogue notes that:"The whole once formed the coffin for a sacred eel; part of the eel's body and a fragment of the top of the coffin are still preserved. The eel, as dweller of the primordial morass, was sacred to the god Atum."