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AN EGYPTIAN GREYWACKE BUST OF A WOMAN
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
Represented wearing a tripartite wig and traditional tightly fitting garment, the collar clearly indicated along her neck, the face with plastically rendered elongated cosmetic lines and eyebrows, the back pillar with two columns of hieroglyphic text for the woman, her name not preserved, who is the beneficiary of the gifts of funerary offerings bestowed upon her by the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, as well as by Osiris and Isis, 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) high
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
Represented wearing a tripartite wig and traditional tightly fitting garment, the collar clearly indicated along her neck, the face with plastically rendered elongated cosmetic lines and eyebrows, the back pillar with two columns of hieroglyphic text for the woman, her name not preserved, who is the beneficiary of the gifts of funerary offerings bestowed upon her by the Theban triad of Amun, Mut, and Khonsu, as well as by Osiris and Isis, 6 7/8in. (17.5cm.) high
Exhibited
The Brooklyn Museum, 1985-1994.