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176 EGYPTIAN BRONZE PRIEST HOLDING A LARGE OSIRIS Hieroglyphic inscription around self-contained base. Late Period, ca. 712-30 BC. H. 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) Ex collection of le comte de Serionne, administrator of the Suez Canal Society, said to have been acquired in Egypt before 1900. A rare type. Published: J. Eisenberg, Art of the Ancient World, vol. XVII, 2006, no. 186. 177 EGYPTIAN LARGE BRONZE PTAH, patron of artists, and craftsmen, wearing a cap and close-fitting cloak; holding the was-scepter. XXIst-XXVth Dynasty, ca. 1069 -712 BC. H. 7 5/8 in. (19.6 cm.) Published: C. Andrews & J. van Dijk, Objects for Eternity, Egyptian Antiquities from the W. Arnold Meijer Collection, 2006, pp. 201-203, no. 3. 20, illus. Exhibited: Musée Allard Pierson, Musée Archéologique de l'Université d'Amsterdam, 17 novembre 2006 - 25 mars 2007. 178 EGYPTIAN BRONZE CAT seated in the traditional attitude, a hieroglyphic inscription along the edge of the hm-shaped integral plinth, reading: "Bastet giver of life, Maa-kheruHor...Iun(yt), Sopdet, Lady of...may she live forever!" XXI-XXXth Dynasty, 1070-343 BC. H. 3 1/8 in. (8 cm.) Ex collection of a midwestern university professor, acquired between 1969 and 1972.