An Egyptian Bronze Situla, Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th - 3rd century BCE Medium - Clay king's scribe Paser

king's scribe Paser

such as this superb example

Its painted design is intended to resemble lacquer

then by descent

he believed it to be "proof of the celebrated locust worship by pagan Philistine and Canaanite priests

An Egyptian Bronze Situla, Early Ptolemaic Period, ca. 4th - 3rd century BCE Medium - Clay king's scribe PaserCast using the lost wax method, this fine, tapering vessel features a rolled rim, and rounded bottom with knobbed base. It is decorated in raised relief, the wide central register with a dedicant holding a lotus flower staff next to an offering altar, making offerings to the three deities, Isis with cow horn crown, Nephthys, and Amun Ra, each holding the life sign ankh in their right hand and a was scepter in their left, the lower register with