SISTRE IN BRONZE
EGYPT, SAID PERIOD, CIRCA 664-525 BCCylindrical handle surmounted by a bust of Hathor, wearing his wig with curly ends, bovine ears, adorned with a large ousekh collar, on each shoulder a uraeus wearing the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt, above the modius between the uprights of the arch two opposite cobras capped with the solar disk, each upright of the arch pierced with three holes receiving the three metal rods
Height: 39.5 cm. (15½ in.)
