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Description : AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE ISIS AND HORUS LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C. The goddess seated on a throne with her feet parallel on a low plinth, clad in a tightly-fitted ankle-length sheath and a tripartite wig, her ears drilled at their inner channels, crowned with a modius of uraei, an ancient metal pin at the front for a now-missing attachment, her full face with almond-shaped eyes, arching brows and a smiling mouth, offering her left breast to her divine son Horus seated on her lap, her left hand supporting his neck, Horus wearing a cap-crown with the side lock of youth 8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high

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About the lot N° 67
Title : AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE ISIS AND HORUS
Size : (22.5 cm.) high
Provenance : Father Cleosus Steinhausen, Cairo, 1900-1908. Studium Biblicum Franciscanum Museum, Jerusalem. Antiquities, Superior Gallery, Los Angeles, 8-9 June 1993, lot 707.

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