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THBEgyptian Ptolemaic Bronze Striding Anubis, ex-Bonhams
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Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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Egypt, Ptolemaic Period, ca. 2nd to 1st century BCE. A cast leaded-bronze figure of Anubis - the jackal-headed god of the dead and the process of embalming - in a classic striding pose atop an integral rectangular plinth. Anubis presents with arms draped to his hips, wearing a shendyt (kilt), and with bare chest beneath his prominent canine physiognomy. A pair of perky ears protruding from atop the tripartite wig, and the wig lappets drape down to his clavicle and frame the face. Size: 0.875" W x 3.3" H (2.2 cm x 8.4 cm); 3.75" H (9.5 cm) on included custom stand.
Anubis, based on the real animal called the African golden jackal, is a god associated with mummification and the afterlife and is usually depicted as either a canine or a man with a canine head. Like many Egyptian deities, the role of Anubis changed over time. During the First Dynasty, he was a protector of graves and an embalmer. In the Middle Kingdom period, Osiris claimed Anubis' role as lord of the underworld, but Anubis continued to weigh the hearts of the dead against a feather of truth to determine if they were deserving of eternal life.
Anubis is also associated with Wepwawet (Upuaut), an Egyptian god based on the African golden wolf, with grey or white fur in contrast to that of Anubis. Together, they were worshipped at the city of Asyut which was called "Lycopolis" (city of wolves) by the Greeks. In 1895, American traveler William Vaughn Tupper described Asyut: "In the hills seen on the horizon are the tombs of the priests and numberless holes in the rocks once filled with mummies of the Jackal...the hills are now strewn with skulls and bones of the Jackals" (from the William Vaughn Tupper Scrapbook Collection, Boston Public Library).
Published in "Art of the Ancient World," Vol. XXIII (2012), no. 190 and Vol. XXIX (2018), p. 74, no. 150.
Another example of a larger size hammered for $50,000 at Christie's, New York "Antiquities" auction (sale 17459, April 29, 2019, lot 116).
Provenance: ex-Royal Athena Galleries, New York City, New York, USA; ex-Bonhams, London, November 2010; ex-French collection
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#175402Softening to some finer details, with light roughness across surfaces commensurate with age, slight bending to figure atop plinth, and light abrasions, otherwise intact and excellent. Great patina and figural form!Condition
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