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

Provenance:   Paul Ilton private collection

The pomegranate quickly became a popular motif in jewelry

Mary and the Christ child on her lap

Tutankhamun stands in the center and is wearing the Atef crown

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