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Statuette of a winged goddess
Statuette of a winged goddess, probably Nut, the goddess of the sky wearing the sun disk on her head and carrying a Maat feather in her left hand.
Egypt
Late Dynastic Period , XXVI Dynasty, 664-525 BC
Bronze, finely incised
Height 17.7 cm ( 7 in )
Width 10 cm ( 3 7⁄8 in )
Former private collection Carl Leonhard Burckhardt (1902-1965) Switzerland, by decent from the above
G. Roeder: Ägyptische Bronzefiguren, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin 1956
S. Schoske & D. Wildung: Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1992
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Statuette of a winged goddess, probably Nut, the goddess of the sky. She wears the sun disk on her head and carries a Maat feather in her left hand. She stands on a Naos, with cornice moulding placed on a flat rectangular base. Her outstretched winged arms embrace the worshipper protectively who stands in front of her (probably the donor of the statuette). The adorant is bald, wears a short skirt and has one arm held up in gesture of prayer.
