Egyptian Late Period Bronze Ibis

7th-4th centuries B.C., consisting of cast bronze elements fitted to a wooden body covered in gesso and polychrome.

10 x 17 x 5 in.

Thoth, the Egyptian god of learning and divine wisdom, was associated with the African Sacred Ibis. In fact, he is commonly depicted as a striding man with the head of an ibis.

Areas of restoration to wooden elements with some later paint; all over verdigris to metal; one leg with partial crack approximately wrapping one half the circumference of the lower leg.