An Egyptian Bronze Situla, Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th - 3rd century BCE Gods & Goddesses Provenance: Paul Ilton private collection

Provenance:   Paul Ilton private collection

These jars were primarily used to hold fragrant substances for burning rather than for storing everyday items

Exhibited: The Australian Consulate

fashioned from variegated gray granite with prominent black veining

otherwise intact and in good condition

An Egyptian Bronze Situla, Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th - 3rd century BCE Gods & Goddesses Provenance: Paul Ilton private collectionCast using the lost wax method, this fine, tapering vessel features a rolled rim, and rounded bottom with knobbed base. It is decorated in raised relief, the wide central register with a dedicant holding a lotus flower staff next to an offering altar, making offerings to the three deities, Isis with cow horn crown, Nephthys, and Amun Ra, each holding the life sign ankh in their right hand and a was scepter in their left, the lower register with