Ancient Egyptian Bronze Ibis - Aug 28, 2022 | Apollo Art Auctions In United Kingdom
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE IBIS

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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE IBIS
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE IBIS
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Ptolemaic Period, Ca. 332-32 BC A bronze Ibis depicted seated on long folded legs, with articulated closed wings, a sinuous neck, and long hooked bill. The bird wears a plumed Hemhem crown. The attachment pegs below each leg allow the insertion to a wooden base.Thoth, a multipurpose god in the Egyptian pantheon associated with language, writing, and intellectual activity, was most often depicted with an ibis head and human body.In the Late Period and Ptolemaic Period, ibises were bred throughout Egypt to be slaughtered, mummified, and offered as votives to Thoth. For a similar (but in pendant form) see The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number: 2021.41.156.Size: L:78mm / W:77mm ; 41gProvenance: From the private collection of an Essex gentleman; previously in an old British Collection, formed in the 1990s.
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN BRONZE IBIS

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