EGYPT. Bronze amulet of Nefertum. Late Dynastic Period, 664-332 BC.

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Lot: 960. Estimated: $ 300

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EGYPT. Bronze amulet of Nefertum. Late Dynastic Period, 664-332 BC. (7.6 cm tall). Nefertum walking forward, wearing lotus flower on top of head, head scarf, and false beard, back straight, arms at his side. There is a loop for suspension on the back of the head. Cf. Petrie 175e. Green patina, minor roughness and deposits, missing the tall plumes above the lotus. Otherwise, about as made. Website shipping rates do not apply.

Ex Helios Gallery E30 (7 September 2020); Jack Webb Collection, London, purchased from Puttick & Simpson Auctioneers, 23 August 1966.

According to Egyptian mythology, at the creation of the world Nefertum was originally a lotus flower who had arisen from the primal waters within an Egyptian water-lily, Nymphaea caerulea. Representing both the pleasant aroma of the sacred Egyptian blue lotus flower and the first sunlight, Nefertum was a god of perfume and aromatherapy and also of the rising sun.

Closing Date and Time: 9 March 2022 at 15:19:40 ET.

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