THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
AN ALABASTER UPPER PART OF A KNEELING ROYAL FIGURE, the king wearing double uraei and nemes-headdress, with pig-tail down his back, mounted, Dynasty XXV, circa 7th Century B.C.

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AN ALABASTER UPPER PART OF A KNEELING ROYAL FIGURE, the king wearing double uraei and nemes-headdress, with pig-tail down his back, mounted, Dynasty XXV, circa 7th Century B.C.
5¾in. (14.5cm.) high

Lot Essay

Double uraei on the royal headdress appear during the 25th Dynasty; cf. the Sphinx of Taharqa from Kawa, now in the British Museum, London, illustrated in The Image of the Black in Western Art, Harvard University Press, 1976, pls. 85-87

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