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Description : Late Period, 664-332 BC. A bronze statuette of Isis in sitting position wearing a tight-fitting robe with banded collar, feet resting on a square block, right hand on the thigh, left arm supporting a fly-whisk, Hathor crown of sun-disc and feathers to the head, mounted on a custom-made stand. Cf. Harvard Art Museums, accession number 1960.464 for similar. 497 grams, 17.5cm (7). Property of a South African lady, formerly in the private collection of Dr. Frederick Lorch, Swiss geologist and author on Egyptian antiquities, and managing director of S.A. Minerals Corporation, acquired from the early 1960s to the early 1980s, thence by descent to the current owner. The figure is atypical of Late Period depictions of the goddess in that it does not depict Horus seated on her lap feeding from her. This 'Mother Goddess' aspect of her cult was emphasised when it spread from Egypt around the eastern Mediterranean and ultimately to Rome. [A video of this item is available to view on TimeLine Auctions website.]

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