A RED GRANITE BUST OF A SEM-PRIEST, wearing leopard skin over his left shoulder, his striated wig has been recut into a series of recessed layers on either side of the face, back column below wig, archaizing Dynasty XXV, 8th-7th Century B.C.
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A RED GRANITE BUST OF A SEM-PRIEST, wearing leopard skin over his left shoulder, his striated wig has been recut into a series of recessed layers on either side of the face, back column below wig, archaizing Dynasty XXV, 8th-7th Century B.C.
7in. (17.8cm.) high
Lot Essay
Cf. B. Bothmer (ed.), Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100, The Brooklyn Museum, 1960, pl. 10. no. 23