Day 1 - Colossal Modern Art Design, Jewelry, & Sculpture
Sat, Nov 2, 2024 11:00AM EDT
Lot 656
20th Century Egyptian Revival Wooden & Polychrome Ba-Bird Sculpture
Estimate: $300 - $450
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20th Century Egyptian Revival Wooden & Polychrome Ba-Bird Sculpture
Ba-Bird is intranslatable Egyptian word referring to one of the aspects of a person or a god's being. Unlike what many other cultures believed and believe, the Egyptians did not regard a person as being made up of a body and a soul together forming the sum total of a person, while each representing a separate part of the person.
According to Egyptian texts, the 'ba' also had bodily needs, and is thus not the equivalent of our concept 'soul'. The Egyptians thought that the entire person, regarded from different points of view, could be referred to by different words.
Just as the 'ka' was the life force, and a name the visible, physical manifestation of the person called by that name, so the 'ba' was seen as the aspect of the non-physical, freely moving personality. The desire for freedom of movement appears regularly in the funerary literature. It was the 'ba' which enabled the deceased to leave the tomb, for example to worship the rising sun, to rest in the shadow of a tree, or to drink water from a pond.
Size: 19 3/4 x 13 in.
#7901
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19 3/4 x 13 in.
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