Lot 116
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A HELLENISTIC MINIATURE IRON BUST OF A BLACK WOMAN

Details
A HELLENISTIC MINIATURE IRON BUST OF A BLACK WOMAN
CIRCA 3RD-1ST CENTURY B.C.

With expressive and sensitive modelling, the lips parted revealing the teeth, wearing a cloak on the shoulders, and a sakkos from which protrudes curly locks of hair, short at the forehead, and longer over each ear, 5/8in. (1.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

The style, subject matter, and small scale of this bronze closely link it to the Hellenistic bronze hoard from Galjub in the Egyptian Delta now in the Roemer- und Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim. See Ippel, Der Bronzefund von Galjub.