Charles Ede - Antiquities Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Home
  • Artworks
  • Fairs
  • Catalogues
  • Insights
  • Press
  • Services
  • Contact

Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian head of a cat, Late Dynastic Period, 25th-31st Dynasty, 747-332 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian head of a cat, Late Dynastic Period, 25th-31st Dynasty, 747-332 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian head of a cat, Late Dynastic Period, 25th-31st Dynasty, 747-332 BC
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Egyptian head of a cat, Late Dynastic Period, 25th-31st Dynasty, 747-332 BC
Egyptian head of a cat, Late Dynastic Period, 25th-31st Dynasty, 747-332 BC
Bronze
Height 5.5cm
10843
£ 8,200.00
Enquire
%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22title_and_year%22%3E%3Cem%3EEgyptian%20head%20of%20a%20cat%3C/em%3E%2C%20%3Cspan%20class%3D%22title_and_year_year%22%3ELate%20Dynastic%20Period%2C%2025th-31st%20Dynasty%2C%20747-332%20BC%3C/span%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22medium%22%3EBronze%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22dimensions%22%3EHeight%205.5cm%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class%3D%22price%22%3E%C2%A3%208%2C200.00%3C/div%3E

Further images

  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 1) Egyptian head of a cat, Late Dynastic Period, 25th-31st Dynasty, 747-332 BC
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 2) Egyptian head of a cat, Late Dynastic Period, 25th-31st Dynasty, 747-332 BC
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 3) Egyptian head of a cat, Late Dynastic Period, 25th-31st Dynasty, 747-332 BC
  • (View a larger image of thumbnail 4) Egyptian head of a cat, Late Dynastic Period, 25th-31st Dynasty, 747-332 BC
A cast bronze head of a cat, with strong bone structure, the pricked and gently inward curving ears are unusually large, the eyes in relief. 
A head such as this...
Read more
A cast bronze head of a cat, with strong bone structure, the pricked and gently inward curving ears are unusually large, the eyes in relief.


A head such as this would have surmounted either a mummified cat or a statue whose body was composed of another material, and used as a votive offerings at temple sanctuaries to Bastet.
Cats were domesticated from the Middle Kingdom onwards. A great number were mummified in the Late Period and presented at the cult centre of Bastet at Bubastis of the Delta, and from the Late Period through to the Ptolemaic you find such cast cat heads being offered.

Provenance

Private collection of an archaeologist who died in the 1960s, London, UK; thence by descent

Literature

Compare Jiro Kondo (ed.), The Gateway to Ancient Egypt through the Kikugawa Egyptian Collection in Japan (Yokohama, 1951), no.198
Close full details
Share
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
Previous
|
Next
1 
of 27

        

Terms & Conditions of Sale

Privacy Policy

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
Send an email
View on Google Maps
Copyright © 2021 Charles Ede - Antiquities Gallery
Site by Artlogic