About the lot N° 75
Title : A Large Egyptian Sandstone Relief
Notes : Provenance:Property of a lady, acquired at Christie's in 2001.Published:Christie's South Kensington, Antiquities, Wednesday 7 November, lot 420.Literature:For a small similarly styled Ptolemaic plaque of a goddess in the British Museum, cf. S.Walker & P.Higgs, Cleopatra of Egypt, from History to Myth, (British Museum, London, 2001), p.68, fig.46. It is probable that the goddess on the right of this panel is Hatmehyt, the fish-goddess from Mendes in the Delta region. Images of this fish-goddess are quite rare and in later times her position as the pre-eminent deity of the region was usurped by Banebdjedet, the ram-goddess. Her name can be literally translated as she who is in front of the fishes or Foremost of the fish. She was sometimes depicted as a fish (either a dolphin or a lepidotus fish) or a woman with a Fish emblem on her head, as in this example.Bonhams 3, auctioneer, London, UK
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Sale title : Antiquities
Sale date : 26 Oct 2007
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