Oxyrhynchus

Late Period, 26th Dynasty, circa 664 – 525 BC

Solid-cast bronze.

L 10.5 cm H 6.5 cm

Nile pike with trunk-like mouth on a narrow bar bent up in front; attached by its fins. The Nile pike is associated with the goddess Hathor. Therefore it wears the horned sun-disc headdress fronted by a central uraeus, behind it a suspension loop. The fins, gills and mouth are engraved. The eyes were originally inlaid, otherwise intact.

Published

Auction sale catalogue François de Ricqlès, Archéologie, Paris Drouot, 25 and 26 September 1998, lot 651

Galerie Günter Puhze – catalogue Kunst der Antike 13, Freiburg im Breisgau 1999, no. 216

cf.

The British Museum: EA61953

S. Schoske, D. Wildung, Gott und Götter im alten Ägypten, Mainz 1992, no. 55

Provenance

German private collection H. W. (1931-2018), acquired 1999 at Galerie Günter Puhze.

Accompanied by an IADAA Interpol search certificate.

Price

€ 2,900

Item

7541

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