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Horus on a rectangular base Green hard stone, carved and pol…
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132
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Horus on a rectangular base Green hard stone, carved and pol…
See original version (French)
Estimate €150 - €300
Voluntary lot
Description
Horus
on a rectangular base
Green hard stone, carved and polished, chips, marks of time.
Egypt, Roman period.
Height: 7 cm
Provenance: Sale, Maîtres Maurice Rheims, René Laurin and Philippe Rheims, Hôtel des ventes Drouot, Paris, 17/11/1966, catalogue no. 366 ter.
This small statuette depicts Horus the falcon standing on a rectangular base, wings folded in the god's characteristic stance. The finely carved and polished green hardstone bears witness to the continuity of the cult of Horus in the Roman period, a period during which Egyptian religious traditions endured within a multicultural empire. The rectangular base, typical of small votive sculptures from this period, underlines the object's cultic function.
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