BRONZE FIGURE OF KHONSU

BRONZE FIGURE OF KHONSU

Enthroned god of Karnak, son of Amun and Mut, clad in plaited skirt, wearing striated wig with frontal uraeus and lunar disc (missing) within crescent moon; arms bent, both hands clenched and pierced for holding a sceptre, rectangular base, tang underneath

Ex priv. coll. L.J., Netherlands 2015; before priv. coll. A.L., Germany 1960 – 1972
H. 8,2 cm. Brown patina, small restoration at lunula.

Late Period – Ptoleamaic Period, 4th – 2nd cent. BC

Cf. G. Roeder, Aegyptische Bronzefiguren, Berlin 1956 §215b, T. 78e