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Description : Bid with Confidence - Trust the Artemis Advantage: - 25+ years’ experience selling ancient and ethnographic art - Ancient items have been legally acquired, and are legal to sell - Accurate descriptions, accurate images, no hidden reserves - Artemis has its own Testing Lab on-site to ensure authenticity. Ancient Egypt, Third Intermediate to early Late Dynastic Period, 22nd to 26th Dynasty, ca. 943 to 525 BCE. A hand-built faience female figure presenting nude with arms held aloft above her head. Above her black-painted coiffure is a vertically striped basket, perhaps filled with offerings or other accoutrements. Her arms and legs bear dozens of black stripes while her pubis is adorned with a solid panel of black pigment similar to her nipples, eyes, and hair. Though figures like this example were typically identified as concubines and buried with men in ancient Egypt - as it was believed to ensure the man's fertility and sexual pleasure in the afterlife - scholars now posit these figures as fertility symbols kept by both men and women to enhance one's fertility/virility, even in the afterlife. Size: 0.84 L x 1.91 W x 5.45 H (2.1 cm x 4.9 cm x 13.8 cm), 5.75 H (14.6 cm) on included custom stand. Cf. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, accession number 86.1.55 Provenance: Collection of Dr. W. Benson Harer, Los Angeles, California, USA, acquired from Hixenbaugh Ancient Art, New York New York, USA, March 26, 2019, ex-William Kelly Simpson estate All items legal to buy/sell under U.S. Statute covering cultural patrimony Code 2600, CHAPTER 14, and are guaranteed to be as described or your money back. A Certificate of Authenticity will accompany all winning bids. We ship worldwide and handle all shipping in-house for your convenience. IMPORTANT EXCEPTION We are currently unable to ship to Australia, Germany or Switzerland due to customs regulations. #182081
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