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Lot Essay
Item one: this royal head was either a component for a large relief, or a sculptor's model, and would have worn a crown above. Parallels for such a large sized inlay can be found in the former Omar Pacha Sultan collection, cf. O. W. Muscarella (ed.), Ancient Art: The Norbert Schimmel Collection, Mainz, 1974, no. 213, sold Sotheby's New York, 16 December 1992, lot 112 (now in the Miho Museum, see Ancient Glass, Miho Museum, 2001, pp. 34 and 192, no. 25). For inlays in limestone, cf. C. Aldred, Akhenaten and Nefertiti, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1973, p. 199, no. 134; B. T. Trope et al., Excavating Egypt, Great Discoveries from the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, 2005, no. 58 (UC 009, excavated in 1891/2); S. Schoske and D. Wildung, Entdeckungen, Munich and Mainz, 1985, pp. 74 and 76, no. 56; Sotheby's New York, 23 June 1989, lot 52, formerly in the Ernest Erickson collection; and M. Jorgensen, Egypt, II (1550-1080 B.C.), Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1998, nos. 58-59 (acquired in Egypt in 1892). These parallels appear to confirm a date in the Amarna period or early Dynasty XIX.