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BRONZE SEKHMET
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BRONZE SEKHMET
See original version (French)
Estimate €2,000 - €3,000
Voluntary lot
Description
BRONZE SEKHMET
Egyptian art, Ptolemaic period, 332–30 BC.
A votive statuette depicting the lion-headed goddess standing on a square plinth, arms at her sides, clad in a long, close-fitting robe, wearing the tripartite headdress surmounted by the solar disc and the uraeus. On the plinth, a hieroglyphic inscription reads: ‘May Sekhmet grant life to Padiousir, son of Hor (?)’.
Height: 12.7 cm
Provenance: Private collection, acquired on the London art market in the late 1970s–early 1980s, then passed down through the family
Christie’s, London, 28 April 2009: lot 139 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011–August 2023 (Inv. No. MMoCA254)
Bibliography: Christie’s, Antiquities including the Plesch Collection of Ancient Glass, London, 28 April 2009, lot 139
P. Clayton, “Ancient Egypt” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 43, fig. 15
M. Merrony, “L’Ancienne Égypte” in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, The Levett Family Collection, France, 2012, p. 23
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, p. 27
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2016, p. 27, fig. 23 and p. 79
An Egyptian bronze figure of Sekhmet,
Ptolemaic Period, 332–30 BC.
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