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This is the rating and price for An Egyptian Bronze Neith

Recorded provenance


Description : LATE PERIOD TO PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 664-30 B.C. The goddess striding with her left leg advanced, wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt and a tightly-fitted sheath, embellished with an incised beaded broad collar, arm bands and bracelets, her left arm extended forward, her fisted hand perforated to hold a now-missing staff, her right arm at her side, the hand also perforated for a now-missing attribute, the four sides of the integral rectangular plinth with a hieroglyphic inscription reading, Good things(?): Padisokar, son of Kenankhet, justified,... lord of Neith,... [the gods?] (or ), of Heaven, birth-mother of the gods, who causes to live(?)... (or gives life and health(?)...) 9 7/16 in. (24 cm.) high
Price: 28 800.00 USD It's free to register now to view!
Estimate (low-high) : 10000 USD-15000 USD It's free to register now to view!

About the lot N° 31
Title : An Egyptian Bronze Neith
Provenance : Dr. Joseph Chess, 1978.
Literature : R.S. Bianchi and J. McDonald, Exhibition catalogue, In the Tomb of Nefertari: Conservation of the Wall Paintings, Malibu, 1992, no. 37, pp. 78-79.G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 32B, pp. 58 and 60.
Christie's, auctioneer, New York, US It's free to register now to view!
Sale title : Ancient Egyptian Art from the Harer Family Trust Collection
Sale date : 09 Dec 2005 It's free to register now to view!
Sale Reference : Live Sale

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