AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE SISTRUM HANDLELate Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C.The cylindrical handle is surmounted by a head of Hathor, wearing the typical curved wig and aegis, flanked by two uraei, with an altar decorated with a frieze of uraei atop her head, 14cm high, (16.5cm high inc. base)Provenance:Gustave Mustaki, Alexandria, Egypt; exported from Egypt to the UK under licence c.1950;Elsa MacLellan, Portsmouth, UK; thence by descent from the above;Private collection, London, UK; thence by descent from the above; Private collection Rome.