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AN EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC/ARCHAIC GREEN QUARTZITE 'BOUND PRISONER'
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AN EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC/ARCHAIC GREEN QUARTZITE 'BOUND PRISONER'

CIRCA EARLY 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN PREDYNASTIC/ARCHAIC GREEN QUARTZITE 'BOUND PRISONER'
CIRCA EARLY 3RD MILLENNIUM B.C.
The male figure with long bearded face and short hair, both arms lashed behind his back, an additional white inlay in the left eye, pierced longitudinally for attachment, lower legs missing; and a rectangular limestone mould bearing on one side a bound Asiatic figure, on the other side another bound prisoner with a recumbent ass, New Kingdom, circa 1292-1085 B.C.
2 in. (5.4 cm.) high and 2¾ x 2 in. (7 x 5 cm.) respectively (2)
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Lot Essay

Cf. W. C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, I, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1990, pp. 113-116, fig. 67; and E. Vassilika, Egyptian Art, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 18-19, no. 5 for similar foreign captives.

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