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a bronze ritual instrument surmounted by Bastet, as a nursing mother cat with two kittens, wearing a sun disc crown, on the lower sides of the sistrum two heads in low relief, possibly portraying a bearded Silenus. The Sistrum was used in the Old Kingdom period during rituals for the mother goddes Hathor, the sound it would make would mimic the rustling of the papyrus reeds. In the later Periods it would also be used for rituals for the cat-goddess Bastet.
h. 20,4 and w. 13.8 cm. on a custom made stand.
Provenance: Private collection Belgium, Kunsthandel Mieke Zilverberg, Amsterdam, Private Dutch collection Wassenaar, Holland. Published in Pan Amsterdam catalogue, 2004. Ref. M. Raven et altri, 'Brons uit de oudheid', Amsterdam 1992, p. 43. Egyptian Museum Berlin, Berlin 1984, p. 120-121
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