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DYNASTY XXX TO EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH-3RD CENTURY B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
Dynasty XXX to Early Ptolemaic Period, Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief, depicting a pharaoh in profile to the left, wearing a bag wig fronted by a uraeus, a belted kilt, and a single-strand necklace, offering a broad collar to a deity, to the left, whose preserved hand clasps a was-scepter, with water fowl and florals below
21½ in. (54.6 cm) long
Dynasty XXX to Early Ptolemaic Period, Circa 4th-3rd Century B.C.
Sculpted in sunk relief, depicting a pharaoh in profile to the left, wearing a bag wig fronted by a uraeus, a belted kilt, and a single-strand necklace, offering a broad collar to a deity, to the left, whose preserved hand clasps a was-scepter, with water fowl and florals below
21½ in. (54.6 cm) long
Provenance
European Private Collection, acquired in 1968