Lot Essay
The eye was probably inlaid in another material. Cf. W. Stevenson Smith, Ancient Egypt, 1960, p. 143, pl. 93 for a red jasper inlay head of Seti I in Boston Museum. Also, O. W. Muscarella, Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Mainz, 1974, no. 208 dated as Dynasty XVIII