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KUSHITE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV, 712-657 B.C.
細節
AN EGYPTIAN SANDSTONE RELIEF
KUSHITE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV, 712-657 B.C.
Sculpted in shallow raised relief, depicting a couple seated before a t-shaped offering table piled high with loaves of bread, cuts of meat and vegetables, the male figure wearing a kilt, broad collar and wig topped by an ointment cone, his left hand holding a folded linen handkerchief, the other hand extended over the offerings, palm down, his companion to the right wearing a tightly-fitted sheath and a tripartite wig adorned with an ointment cone and fronted by a lotus blossom, her left hand clasping his left bicep, a column of partially-preserved hieroglyphs to the far left, traces of a second offering table preserved along the right edge
19 in. (48.3 cm.) long
KUSHITE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV, 712-657 B.C.
Sculpted in shallow raised relief, depicting a couple seated before a t-shaped offering table piled high with loaves of bread, cuts of meat and vegetables, the male figure wearing a kilt, broad collar and wig topped by an ointment cone, his left hand holding a folded linen handkerchief, the other hand extended over the offerings, palm down, his companion to the right wearing a tightly-fitted sheath and a tripartite wig adorned with an ointment cone and fronted by a lotus blossom, her left hand clasping his left bicep, a column of partially-preserved hieroglyphs to the far left, traces of a second offering table preserved along the right edge
19 in. (48.3 cm.) long
來源
French Private Collection, 1970s.
Acquired by the current owner at auction in Paris in the 1980s.
Acquired by the current owner at auction in Paris in the 1980s.