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Descrizione : wearing a tripartite wig with fragmentary uraeus and diadem formerly surmounted by the scorpion-crown, her idealizing face with slightly smiling mouth, prominent cheek-bones, and wide-set eyes with long contoured cosmetic lines in relief. Height 81/2 in. (21.6 cm.). wearing a tripartite wig with fragmentary uraeus and diadem formerly surmounted by the scorpion-crown, her idealizing face with slightly smiling mouth, prominent cheek-bones, and wide-set eyes with long contoured cosmetic lines in relief. Height 81/2 in. (21.6 cm.) Provenance: Lord Amherst of Hackney (Sotheby's, London, Catalogue of the Amherst Collection of Egyptian & Oriental Antiquities, June 13th-17th, 1921, p. 27, no. 257, pl. VIII) Dikran G. Kelekian, New York, 1948 Published: Bernard V. Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100, catalogue of the exhibition at The Brooklyn Museum, 1960, pp. 63 and 64, no. 55, pl. 52, figs. 127-129, and pp. xi and 144 Dietrich von Bothmer, Ancient Art from New York Private Collections, catalogue of the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1961, no. 81, pls. 22 and 25 Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, catalogue of the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, no. 21, illus. See Houlihan, The Animal World of the Pharaohs, pp. 185-187, in which the author notes: "Selket was famed for her powers in magically healing the nasty bites of both snakes and scorpions. She was usually represented in human form with a large scorpion resting on top of her head, tail raised and ready to deliver a deadly sting. For this reason she was one of the 'protector' goddesses who watched over the deceased.''.
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