medusa ancient art

In the form of a pylon, sculpted in shallow sunk relief, the obverse with a standing man in festive garments with his hands raised in adoration towards Anubis as a jackal upon a shrine, with a squatting falcon-headed deity in between, his head surmounted by a uraeus and a solar disk, an uninscribed panel above, a winged wadjet-eye above left and a wadjet-eye above right, the scene framed on three sides by bands of rectangles, with lilies alternating with triangles below, a winged solar disk in the cavetto molding above.

The reverse centered by a winged scarab flanked by squatting figures of Nephthys and Isis, identified by their crowns, with three nefer-signs above a nb-basket, flanked by wadjet-eyes, framed on either side by bands of rectangles, lilies below, a running spiral above, preserving numerous faience inlays in red and turquoise blue, perforated at the back and top of the cornice for suspension.

Provenance: European Private Collection, acquired prior to the 1950s.
Condition: A chip on the reverse lower corner, otherwise intact. An excellent example.
Published: Chrisitie's New York, December 9 2008, lot 17, illus.
Category: Egyptian	Period: New Kingdom	Date: c. 19th-20th Dynasty, 1307-1070 B.C.
Material: Steatite	Width: 2 7/8" (7.3cm)	Display Stand: Yes