Bronze goddess Neith, Ptolemaic Period
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This bronze statuette represents Goddess Neith, wearing her traditional Red Crown of Lower Egypt, with her right hand next to her thigh holding the seal of power, and her left hand jutting forward to hold the scepter, now missing. This sculpture shows the effect of an increasingly cosmopolitan society upon traditional Egyptian artistic canons. The physical type of the woman portrayed is evidently Greek, the proportions have strayed from classicism almost to the point of caricature. It shows Egypt going through the motions of remaining Egyptian, but without much conviction. In the dusky days of a defeated nation, the Egyptian mighty goddess of war, once used to portray some of Egypt’s greatest queens, is ironically empty of her meaning. Macedonian or Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BC). “The Greeks identified Neith with Athena, probably because of her warlike aspect” (Shaw & Nicholson 1995:200). Bibliography (for this item)Khalil, Hassan M.1976 Preliminary Studies on the Sanusret Collection. Manuscript, Musée l’Egypte et le Monde Antique, Monaco-Ville, Monaco. ([1]231) Shaw, Ian, and Paul Nicholson 1995 The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London, United Kingdom. (200) |
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