Consulter la cote et le prix de Egyptian Ptolemaic Bronze Striding Anubis, Ex-Bonhams, 2019

Description : Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. A cast leaded-bronze figure of Anubis - the jackal-headed god of the dead and the process of embalming - in a classic striding pose atop an integral rectangular plinth. Anubis presents with arms draped to his hips, wearing a shendyt (kilt), and with bare chest beneath his prominent canine physiognomy. A pair of perky ears protruding from atop the tripartite wig, and the wig lappets drape down to his clavicle and frame the face. Size: 0.875 W x 3.3 H (2.2 cm x 8.4 cm), 3.75 H (9.5 cm) on included custom stand. Anubis, based on the real animal called the African golden jackal, is a god associated with mummification and the afterlife and is usually depicted as either a canine or a man with a canine head. Like many Egyptian deities, the role of Anubis changed over time. During the First Dynasty, he was a protector of graves and an embalmer. In the Middle Kingdom period, Osiris claimed Anubis' role as lord of the underworld, but Anubis continued to weigh the hearts of the dead against a feather of truth to determine if they were deserving of eternal life. Anubis is also associated with Wepwawet (Upuaut), an Egyptian god based on the African golden wolf, with grey or white fur in contrast to that of Anubis. Together, they were worshipped at the city of Asyut which was called Lycopolis (city of wolves) by the Greeks. In 1895, American traveler William Vaughn Tupper described Asyut: In the hills seen on the horizon are the tombs of the priests and numberless holes in the rocks once filled with mummies of the Jackal...the hills are now strewn with skulls and bones of the Jackals (from the William Vaughn Tupper Scrapbook Collection, Boston Public Library). Published in Art of the Ancient World, Vol. XXIII (2012), no. 190 and Vol. XXIX (2018), p. 74, no. 150. Another example of a larger size hammered for $50,000 at Christie's, New York Antiquities auction (sale 17459, April 29, 2019, lot 116). Provenance: ex-Royal Athena Galleries, New York City, New York, USA, ex-Bonhams, London, November 2010, ex-French collection 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. #175402
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