AN OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLASS INLAY HEAD OF AKHENATEN, the eye and eyebrow recessed, with enlarged pierced ear lobe, the neck bearing traces of two 'vanity wrinkles'

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AN OPAQUE TURQUOISE GLASS INLAY HEAD OF AKHENATEN, the eye and eyebrow recessed, with enlarged pierced ear lobe, the neck bearing traces of two 'vanity wrinkles'
late Dynasty XVIII, circa 1340 B.C.
1½in. (4.2cm.) high, 1 1/8in. (2.9cm.) wide

Lot Essay

Cf. a similar piece from the Kofler-Truniger collection, sold Christie's, London, Ancient Glass, 5 and 6 March 1985, lot 347; also, A. Zivie, Découverte à Saqqarah: Le Vizir oublia©, Paris, 1990, pl. on p. 117, the tomb of Aber-el, Vizier under Amenophis III, yielded a wooden sarcophagus with coloured inlays

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