An Egyptian Bronze Situla, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664 - 525 BCE Gaming Pieces perhaps for a suspension chain

perhaps for a suspension chain

New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art

over the following two centuries

Werkstätten orientalisierender Keramik auf Rhodos (1957)

its head in profile with an elongated spout

An Egyptian Bronze Situla, 26th Dynasty, ca. 664 - 525 BCE Gaming Pieces perhaps for a suspension chainFinely cast using the lost wax method, this fine, tapering vessel features a rolled rim, and rounded bottom with a knobbed base. It is decorated in raised relief, the upper register with two solar barques symbolizing the journey into the afterlife, the wide central register with a priest, incised text above, making an offering to a procession of deities, making offerings to a procession of deities, including Isis with cow horn crown, Nephthys, and