Goddess Maat

CULTURE: Ancient Egypt

PERIOD: Late Period, 664 – 332 BC

MATERIAL: Faience

DIMENSIONS: 17,5 cm height total, 12,5 cm heigth without stand, 8 cm height only the figure without stand and feather.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Paris, France. Purchased from Hôtel Drouot, Maître Maignan, October 10, 1973, lot 49.

CONDITION: Good condition. The plume is made of modern brass.

DESCRIPTION:

Maat, in ancient Egyptian religion, the personification of truth, justice, and the cosmic order. The daughter of the sun god Re, she was associated with Thoth, god of wisdom.

The ceremony of judgment of the dead (called the “Judgment of Osiris,” named for Osiris, the god of the dead) was believed to focus upon the weighing of the heart of the deceased in a scale balanced by Maat (or her hieroglyph, the ostrich feather), as a test of conformity to proper values.

In its abstract sense, maat was the divine order established at creation and reaffirmed at the accession of each new king of Egypt. In setting maat ‘order’ in place of isfet ‘disorder,’ the king played the role of the sun god, the god with the closest links to Maat. Maat stood at the head of the sun god’s bark as it traveled through the sky and the underworld. Although aspects of kingship and of maat were at times subjected to criticism and reformulation, the principles underlying these two institutions were fundamental to ancient Egyptian life and thought and endured to the end of ancient Egyptian history.



Notes:
The seller guarantees that he acquired this piece according to all national and international laws related to the ownership of cultural property. Provenance statement seen by Catawiki.
The piece includes authenticity certificate.
The piece includes Spanish Export License (Passport for European Union) - If the piece is destined outside the European Union a substitution of the export permit should be requested.



賣家的故事

古代藝術畫廊 - 位於巴塞羅那的考古學,擁有超過 15 年的經驗。擅長古典藝術、埃及藝術、亞洲藝術和前哥倫佈時期藝術。它保證其所有作品的真實性。它參加了西班牙最重要的藝術博覽會,例如 Feriarte,以及國外的博覽會,BRAFA、Parcours des Mondes、Cultures Brussels。 所有作品均附有西班牙文化部頒發的出口許可證。 我們可以通過 DHL Express 或 Direct Art Transport 快速發貨。
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Goddess Maat

CULTURE: Ancient Egypt

PERIOD: Late Period, 664 – 332 BC

MATERIAL: Faience

DIMENSIONS: 17,5 cm height total, 12,5 cm heigth without stand, 8 cm height only the figure without stand and feather.

PROVENANCE: Private collection, Paris, France. Purchased from Hôtel Drouot, Maître Maignan, October 10, 1973, lot 49.

CONDITION: Good condition. The plume is made of modern brass.

DESCRIPTION:

Maat, in ancient Egyptian religion, the personification of truth, justice, and the cosmic order. The daughter of the sun god Re, she was associated with Thoth, god of wisdom.

The ceremony of judgment of the dead (called the “Judgment of Osiris,” named for Osiris, the god of the dead) was believed to focus upon the weighing of the heart of the deceased in a scale balanced by Maat (or her hieroglyph, the ostrich feather), as a test of conformity to proper values.

In its abstract sense, maat was the divine order established at creation and reaffirmed at the accession of each new king of Egypt. In setting maat ‘order’ in place of isfet ‘disorder,’ the king played the role of the sun god, the god with the closest links to Maat. Maat stood at the head of the sun god’s bark as it traveled through the sky and the underworld. Although aspects of kingship and of maat were at times subjected to criticism and reformulation, the principles underlying these two institutions were fundamental to ancient Egyptian life and thought and endured to the end of ancient Egyptian history.



Notes:
The seller guarantees that he acquired this piece according to all national and international laws related to the ownership of cultural property. Provenance statement seen by Catawiki.
The piece includes authenticity certificate.
The piece includes Spanish Export License (Passport for European Union) - If the piece is destined outside the European Union a substitution of the export permit should be requested.



賣家的故事

古代藝術畫廊 - 位於巴塞羅那的考古學,擁有超過 15 年的經驗。擅長古典藝術、埃及藝術、亞洲藝術和前哥倫佈時期藝術。它保證其所有作品的真實性。它參加了西班牙最重要的藝術博覽會,例如 Feriarte,以及國外的博覽會,BRAFA、Parcours des Mondes、Cultures Brussels。 所有作品均附有西班牙文化部頒發的出口許可證。 我們可以通過 DHL Express 或 Direct Art Transport 快速發貨。
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文化
古埃及
Name of object
瑪特女神的雕像,真相。晚期,西元前 664 - 332 年。稀有的。 17.5 公分高。
世紀/時間框架
Late Period 664-332 B.C .
種源
私人收藏
原產國
不明
材質
Faience
狀態

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