A wooden statue with faint traces of stucco and blue...
A wooden statue with faint traces of stucco and blue pigment, depicting the goddess Nephthys kneeling, wearing a long sheath dress and a long, three-part wig topped by a column that supported a neb basket.
She extends her right hand toward her mouth as a sign of intercession and stands on a rectangular base.
Egypt, Ptolemaic period, 332–30 B.C.
H.: 36 cm (neb basket missing)
Note: Nephthys is a funerary deity who protects canopic jars and sarcophagi.
Expert: Daniel Lebeurrier
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A wooden statue with faint traces of stucco and blue pigment, depicting the goddess Nephthys kneeling, wearing a long sheath dress and a long, three-part wig topped by a column that supported a neb basket.
She extends her right hand toward her mouth as a sign of intercession and stands on a rectangular base.
Egypt, Ptolemaic period, 332–30 B.C.
H.: 36 cm (neb basket missing)
Note: Nephthys is a funerary deity who protects canopic jars and sarcophagi.
Expert: Daniel Lebeurrier
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Time, Location
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