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The god is representing striding, with his left foot advanced. He wears an armour of bronze scales, a long skirt, a spherical wig crowned by four ostrich feathers, a wide collar and bracelettes; his forehead is decorated by uraeus and his chin by an artificial beard. In the right had the god had originally held a spear. The face is wide and flat, the head is disproportionally large. The style of the statuette is characteristic of the workshops of Lower Egypt under the Nineteenth Dynasty.

The god is representing striding, with his left foot advanced. He wears an armour of bronze scales, a long skirt, a spherical wig crowned by four ostrich feathers, a wide collar and bracelettes; his forehead is decorated by uraeus and his chin by an artificial beard. In the right had the god had originally held a spear. The face is wide and flat, the head is disproportionally large. The style of the statuette is characteristic of the workshops of Lower Egypt under the Nineteenth Dynasty.

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Bibliography

Golenischeff W., Ermitage Imperial. Inventaire de la collection #gyptienne. S.l., 1891, p.21, no.187.
Matthieu M.E., Dreveegipetskie mify. Moscow - Leningrad, 1956, p.162, tab.XY,3.
Matthieu M.E., Iskusstvo Fiv i Memfisa. TGE,II, 1958, p.39, fig.6-7.
Matthieu M.E., Iskusstvo drevnego Egipta. Moscow, 1961, p.477, fig.235.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.96-97, cat. no.103, fig.67.

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Preservation: 
The spear is lost, the surface is weathered.

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