Lot 21
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF OF AN OFFICIAL
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF OF AN OFFICIAL

LATE PERIOD, LATE DYNASTY XXV-EARLY DYNASTY XXVI, CIRCA 670-650 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF OF AN OFFICIAL
LATE PERIOD, LATE DYNASTY XXV-EARLY DYNASTY XXVI, CIRCA 670-650 B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief with raised interior modelling, the official depicted in profile to the left, his head cleanly shaven, his idealizing face with an elongated lidded eye beneath a gently arching brow, the nose well formed, the full lips slightly pursed, the ear with detailed channels and a fleshy lobe, wearing a broad collar over which passes the cord for an amuletic pendant, partially-preserved hieroglyphs above including determinatives used in writing the names of cities and towns, with traces of a khekher border along the far right edge
13½ in. (34.3 cm.) long
Provenance
New England Private Collection.
with Hurst and Hurst, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1984.
Literature
M.A. Hoffman, Exhibition catalogue, The First Egyptians, Columbia, 1988, no. 93, p. 94.
G.D. Scott, III, Exhibition catalogue, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, San Bernardino, 1992, no. 47, pp. 86 and 88.
San Bernardino County Museums Newsletter, vol. VIII, no. 1 January/February 1992, p. 1.
Exhibited
Columbia, South Carolina, McKissick Museum of the University of South Carolina; National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere, The First Egyptians, April 1988-March 1990.
San Bernardino, University Art Gallery, California State University and elsewhere, Temple, Tomb and Dwelling: Egyptian Antiquities from the Harer Family Trust Collection, 8 January-30 December 1992.
San Antonio Museum of Art, The Sun Disk's Horizon: Life in the City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, 1 October 1992-31 January 1993.

Lot Essay

According to Scott (op. cit., p. 86) this "sensitive rendering of an important Late Period official ... must date from the general period of the great Theban officials Harwa, Mentu-em-hat, and Nespekashuti."

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