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n° 101
Titre : Head, PÉRIODE : 1386.0
Dimensions : 10 1/2 in. (26 cm.) highProvenance : Formerly in a Dutch private collection, acquired in Paris in the mid-1960s.Notes : This head probably came from one of the many seated statues of Sekhmet found in the Temple of Mut at Karnak, where a large number were still in existence in the 19th Century. It is thought that the 730 such figures - two for each day of the year - constituted a sculptural version of the double litany of names pronounced each day for this goddess. She had various epithets including 'the flame of Mut', but was also associated with Hathor (cf. A. P. Kozloff and B. M. Bryan, Egypt's Dazzling Sun, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1992, pp. 225-226, no. 34). However, as the daughter of Ra, she was regarded as both a protectoress and destroyer of mankind.Cf. A. M. Lythgoe, 'Statues of the Goddess Sekhmet', B.M.M.A., XIV, October 1919, part II, 'Les statues thebaines de la deesse Sekhmet', Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte, 1920, XIX, pp. 178-207, B. Porter and R.L.B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography, Oxford, 1964, II, pp. 262-268, J. Yoyotte, 'Une Monumentale litanie de granit: les Sekhmet d'Amenophis III et al conjuration permanente de la deesse dangereuse', Bulletin de la Societié Française d'Egyptologie, 1980, pp. 46-75, nos. 87-88.No VAT will be charged on the hammer price, but VAT at 17.5% will be added to the buyer's premium, which is invoiced on a VAT inclusive basis.This lot was published and exhibited at the Bank Brussel Lambert in 1991.Christie's, Salle de vente
, St. James's, UK
🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire.
Titre de la vente : Fine Antiquities including a Collection from Capesthorne Hall, Cheshire
Date de la vente : 18/10/2005
🔓Accès libre sans carte bancaire.
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