EGYPTIAN BRONZE SITULA
Description: Egyptian bronze situla, the tapering vessel features a rolled rim, and rounded bottom with a knobbed base. It is decorated in high relief, the upper register with two solar barques symbolizing the journey into the afterlife, the wide central register with a priest, incised text above, making an offering to a procession of deities, including Isis with cow-horn crown, Nephthys, and Amun-Ra, each holding an ankh in the right hand and a was scepter in the left, the lower register shows Harpokrates with Hathor cows flanking a lotus, the pointed base in the form of a lotus flower; recurrent in Egyptian descriptions of the birth of the universe. | Egypt. Late Period. 664-332 B.C
Notes: The piece includes authenticity certificate. For reasons of data protection, when the provenance of the pieces is private collections, only the initials of the particular collectors are shown, the complete information of these collections will be delivered to the buyer in the 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 and an export fee must be paid ( see terms and conditions ). This process could take between 1 and 2 months.
Provenance: F.C. Collection - Barcelone. Acquired to C.F. private collector ( France ) in 2015 Dimensions: 12,00 cm.
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Description: Egyptian bronze situla, the tapering vessel features a rolled rim, and rounded bottom with a knobbed base. It is decorated in high relief, the upper register with two solar barques symbolizing the journey into the afterlife, the wide central register with a priest, incised text above, making an offering to a procession of deities, including Isis with cow-horn crown, Nephthys, and Amun-Ra, each holding an ankh in the right hand and a was scepter in the left, the lower register shows Harpokrates with Hathor cows flanking a lotus, the pointed base in the form of a lotus flower; recurrent in Egyptian descriptions of the birth of the universe. | Egypt. Late Period. 664-332 B.C
Notes: The piece includes authenticity certificate. For reasons of data protection, when the provenance of the pieces is private collections, only the initials of the particular collectors are shown, the complete information of these collections will be delivered to the buyer in the 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 and an export fee must be paid ( see terms and conditions ). This process could take between 1 and 2 months.
Provenance: F.C. Collection - Barcelone. Acquired to C.F. private collector ( France ) in 2015 Dimensions: 12,00 cm.
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