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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE HEAD OF PTAH(?)
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE HEAD OF PTAH(?)

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE HEAD OF PTAH(?)
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
With shaven head, pierced below the chin for attachment of beard, eyes recessed for inlay, mounted
1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm.) high

Formerly in the Kelekian collection, no. 16, inscribed on ink label on base.

Specialist note

Cf. B. v. Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1961, p. 105, no. 83, pl. 79 for a portrait head of the Priest of Monthu with similarly strong individual characteristics and broad squat skull.