AN EGYPTIAN SILTSTONE HEAD OF A RAM

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

Price realised USD 43,750
Estimate
USD 30,000 – USD 50,000
Closed: 13 Oct 2020
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AN EGYPTIAN SILTSTONE HEAD OF A RAM

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

Price realised USD 43,750
Closed: 13 Oct 2020
Price realised USD 43,750
Closed: 13 Oct 2020
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AN EGYPTIAN SILTSTONE HEAD OF A RAM
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
2 3/8 in. (6 cm.) long
Provenance
Said to be from Thebes.
Private Collection, France, acquired mid-19th century; thence by descent.
Archéologie, Drouot Estimations, Paris, 5 December 2014, lot 14.
Literature
Description de l’Égypte ou recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont été faites en Égypte pendant l’expédition de l’armée française, second edition, vol. V, Paris, 1821, p. 576, pl. 71, figs. 17-18 (illustrated by Prosper Jollois and Édouard de Villiers du Terrage).

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