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Property from a Connecticut Private Collection
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SCULPTOR'S MODEL
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII, REIGN OF AKHENATEN, 1553-1535 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SCULPTOR'S MODEL
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII, REIGN OF AKHENATEN, 1553-1535 B.C.
Sculpted in shallow sunk relief with the head of a royal, perhaps the Pharaoh Akhenaten in profile to the right, wearing a short Nubian wig, with characteristic, narrow slanting eye, long nose, thick lips and hanging chin
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) long
NEW KINGDOM, DYNASTY XVIII, REIGN OF AKHENATEN, 1553-1535 B.C.
Sculpted in shallow sunk relief with the head of a royal, perhaps the Pharaoh Akhenaten in profile to the right, wearing a short Nubian wig, with characteristic, narrow slanting eye, long nose, thick lips and hanging chin
4 7/8 in. (12.4 cm.) long
Provenance
Sid Port Collection, California, acquired in the late 1970s.
with Charles Ede Ltd, London, 1995 (Small Sculpture from Ancient Egypt, no. 3).
with Charles Ede Ltd, London, 1995 (Small Sculpture from Ancient Egypt, no. 3).