AN EGYPTIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF SOTHIS Late Period, Circa 664 - 332 B.C. Standing with her legs together, her right arm by her side, holding an ankh, her left arm outstretched, bent at the elbow, she wears a tight-fitting garment, wearing the crown of Upper Egypt, with a frontal uraeus, flanked by antelope horns and surmounted by a star, 15.2cm high, (20.5cm high inc. base) Provenance: Private collection of a lady, Rome, acquired prior to 2006. Footnotes: Sothis was the personification of the Dog Star, Sirius, which accounts for her regular depiction in the Ptolemaic & Roman period as a dog or woman riding a dog.