This rare, early bronze statuette depicts the goddess Mut, the consort of Amun-Re, whose name means “mother.” Mut wears a tripartite wig with a solarized, horned uraeus on her brow and the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.1 Together, these details symbolize kingship and relate to Mut as the divine mother of the pharaoh. She wears a close-fitting, ankle-length dress. She was once seated on a separately fashioned throne, anchored by two noncanonical tangs under her feet, an indicator of a pre-Third Intermediate Period date.2 The goddess’s body proportions and tangs point to a manufacture date in the New Kingdom.
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Cf. Tiribilli, Elena. 2018. The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400. GHP Egyptology 28. London: Golden House Publications., both Late Period. ↩︎
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Schorsch, Deborah. 2007. “The Manufacture of Metal Statuary: ‘Seeing the Workshops of the Temple.’” In Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples, edited by Marsha Hill with Deborah Schorsch, 189–200. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.. ↩︎
Bibliography
- Schorsch 2007
- Schorsch, Deborah. 2007. “The Manufacture of Metal Statuary: ‘Seeing the Workshops of the Temple.’” In Gifts for the Gods: Images from Egyptian Temples, edited by Marsha Hill with Deborah Schorsch, 189–200. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.
- Tiribilli 2018
- Tiribilli, Elena. 2018. The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400. GHP Egyptology 28. London: Golden House Publications.