During 2022 it sold many Global auctions like Christie’s and Sotheby’s For the arts, there are many different artifacts throughout the year, and the selling prices of the pieces fluctuated, as there were some that were estimated at an exorbitant price and others that were bought cheaply.
Among the statues that were for sale, and were sold at the highest prices, was a large Egyptian bronze statue of Isis with Horus, dating back to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Dynasty, 750-525 BC. pounds sterling, and the statue embodies a bronze figure of Isis and Horus, such as those in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The myth of Isis and Osiris is the most detailed and influential story within the Pharaonic myths. The story revolves around the murder of the god Osiris, the Pharaoh of Egypt, and the consequences of this crime. After the crime, the murderer of Osiris, his brother Set, usurped the throne. At the same time, Isis struck the earth in pursuit of her husband’s body until she found it in Byblos, but six succeeded in stealing the body and cutting it into forty-two parts, and distributing it to the regions of Egypt. Isis did not surrender and was able to collect the remains of her husband, so she became pregnant and Isis gave birth to a son, Horus, and Osiris became king in the kingdom of the dead.
Bronze statue
Christie’s also presented a large number of artifacts, which were sold at a cheap price, including the Canopy vase display, for the Middle East and North Africa region, in the early eighteenth century 1550-1425 BC, and its price is estimated at between 20 to 30 thousand dollars, it was sold with 17,640.
The canopic vessels used by the ancient Egyptians during the mummification process to store and preserve the bowels of the dead for the afterlife were usually made of limestone or pottery. Not all the viscera were kept in one canopic vessel, but there were 4 canopic vessels, each for the storage of a specific organ: stomach, intestines, lungs, liver. Which he thought the deceased would need in the afterlife. There was no vessel for the heart, as the Egyptians believed it was the seat of the soul and was therefore left inside the body.
Canopy vase