An Egyptian Bronze Situla, Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th - 3rd century BCE Medium - Clay Its painted design is intended

Its painted design is intended to resemble lacquer

The symbolic relationship between birds and human beings was

then by descent

and their faces beautified with cosmetics

such as this superb example

An Egyptian Bronze Situla, Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th - 3rd century BCE Medium - Clay Its painted design is intendedCast 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