Egyptian Bronze Kneeling Priest Statuette
Late Period, circa 664 - 332 B.C. The male figure of a kneeling supplicant with back pillar inscribed with hieroglyphic text: 'Neith gives life [to] ..'. Cf. Schulz, R. and Seidel, M., Egyptian Art. The Walters Art Museum, London, 2009, pp.114-115, obj.45, for a comparable figure kneeling before the figure of Anubis. 54 grams total, 76 mm including stand (3 in.).

Private collection S., Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, acquired in the first half of the 20th century. Accompanied by a copy of an Art Loss Register certificate number S00140657, dated 23 October 2018.

This figure was likely attached to a separately cast base and positioned kneeling before a larger figure of the goddess Neith. Such objects were donated to temples to secure the god or goddess's protection for the donor, represented by the kneeling figure.