LOT 0045 Egyptian Female Goddess Idol
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4th millennium BC. A terracotta stylised female idol with arms tapering to a point, raised and outstretched to the sides above the head, narrow waste and wide hips tapering to the feet, a depression at the rear delineating the buttocks; surviving cream-coloured pigmentation on the lower-half of the body; her posture suggests that she is celebrating a ritual; the shape of the head possibly represents a bird and by extension the sky; the cream-coloured robe around her lower body announces her as an individual of high status. See Malek, J., Egyptian Art, Phaidon, London, 1999, p.34, fig.12, for a very similar example; see the Brooklyn Museum, Female Figure, ca. 3500-3400 B.C.E., Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.505., for another almost identical example.109 grams, 17cm (6 3/4"). From the family collection of a Hampstead gentleman; formerly acquired in the 1980s. Figures which are almost identical to this lot have been excavated in El-Ma'mariya, Egypt.
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