Ancient Egypt, Greco–Roman Period Terracotta Goddess Isis Renenutet or Thermoutis 20.5 cm H. "Heritage Collection" Rare

Figure of the goddess Isis Renenutet or Thermoutis Ancient Egypt, Grecio-Roman Period, c. 1st Century BC - 1st Century AD Terracotta Height 20. 5 cm Provenance: Private collection, France. The collector lived and worked in Egypt between the first two World Wars (1914 - 1945) , acquiring and collecting different objects. Sold by his heirs in 2022. CONDITION: Good Conditon, intact. Isis-Thermuthis: a largely ‘human’ body with a snake’s body emerging from below her Isis-shawl, which is knotted between the breasts: her left breast is bare. Her hair is arranged in serried locks which fall on each side in front of her shoulders. She wears a diadem surmounted by a horned crown with feathers and disc. A cobra is held up in her right hand, and she holds her situla in her lowered left hand. Flat-fronted plinth. Back plain, exceptfor a raised edge to the circular vent. Hollow; two-piece mould. Micaceous orange-brown Nile silt, with a very few traces on the front of a white dressing. Hellenistic sculpture was the type in the final period of the evolution of Greek sculpture. It developed in the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323BC, and the conquest of Egypt by the Romans, between 30 and 31 BC. It was of an eclectic, secular and historicist style, taking the legacy of the classical sculpture of the previous period as its point of departure, and adding new oriental influences to this. It also meant the perfection of the depiction of anatomical details and of the expression of human emotions, as well as a fundamental change in aesthetics, relinquishing idealistic representation and putting individual representation in its place, thus passing from the generic to the specific. Parallel: Same figure in the British Museum https: //www. britishmuseum. org/collection/object/G_1987-0402-29 Registration number 1987,0402. 29. See last photo. Notes: The piece includes authenticity certificate. The piece includes Spanish Export License (Passport for European Union) - If the piece is destined outside the European Union a substitution of the export permit should be requested. This process could take between 1 and 2 months.