Egyptian Bronze Nefertem Egyptian Bronze Nefertem Egyptian Bronze Nefertem Egyptian Bronze Nefertem Egyptian Bronze Nefertem Egyptian Bronze Nefertem
Egyptian Bronze Nefertem
Egyptian Bronze Nefertem
Egyptian Bronze Nefertem
Egyptian Bronze Nefertem
Egyptian Bronze Nefertem
Egyptian Bronze Nefertem

Egyptian Bronze Nefertem

SKU: MS.0046

Origin: Egypt
Circa: Third Intermediate Period to Late Period, 1070 BC to 343 BC
Dimensions: 6.3" Height x 1.5" Width x 2" Depth including custom stand (16 cm x 3.8 cm x 5 cm)
Medium: Bronze

The superbly executed god is shown striding forward with the left leg advanced, and right leg missing from the knee down.  He wears a belted pleated kilt, with his right arm lowered, and his left bent acutely at the elbow, forearm projecting forward.  His chin beard is delicately braided and he wears a striated tripartite headcloth once surmounted by his customary lotus crown.  Remains of a circular tenon are preserved atop the head.

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with Edward H. Merrin Gallery, New York, 1968. Private Collection, New York, 1968-2011.

The right leg and left forearm lost, the crown missing, the tip of the beard and part of the chin lost; surface wear and pitting throughout.

Nefertum was the son of the lion-goddess Sakhmet, and is sometimes envisioned as the son of Bastet or certain other great female lion goddesses. In himself he is associated with the opening of the lotus at dawn and is, therefore, associated with the sun and creation.. The popularity of his statuary as donations, however, may have as much to do with pleasing his mother as with furnishing his own cult.

For a similar example, its headdress still preserved, see fig. 27 in M. Hill, ed., Gifts for the Gods.

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