Property from an English Private Collection
An Egyptian Greywacke or Green Schist Head of the Goddess Isis or Hathor, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.
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December 7, 04:32 PM GMT
Estimate
8,000 - 12,000 GBP
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Property from an English Private Collection
An Egyptian Greyw🎀acke or Gr🅰een Schist Head of the Goddess Isis or Hathor
26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.
with idealizi💯ng features, wearing a lo𝕴ng tripartite wig crowned by a diadem of uraei surmounted by cow horns and sun-disk, the rectangular back pillar uninscribed.
Height 11.4 cm.
Mrs. Henry Walters, born Sar🌃ah Whar🌟ton Green Jones (1859-1943), New York
Brummer Gallery, New York, inv. no. N5054, acquired from the above on March🍸 15tꦿh, 1941 ( and )
H. Khan Monif,🎉 New York, acquired from the above on Oct𝔍ober 30th, 1948
Royal-Athena Gallery, New York
acquired from the a🅷bove by the present owner in 2013
For a complete example in green schist in the Brooklyn Museum, acc. no. 37.938E, see. For related examples see G. Steindorff, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, 1946, pl. 71.