LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXVI, 712-525 B.C.

细节

AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE RELIEF
LATE PERIOD, DYNASTY XXV-XXVI, 712-525 B.C.
Carved in wafer-thin raised relief, recalling Old Kingdom style, with six male offering bearers all wearing short, belted kilts, carrying and arranging vessels filled with liquid and solid food offerings for a tomb, their echeloned wigs, leg musculature and feet finely detailed, the single handled vessels with incised wavy bands indicating banded alabaster, the top portion of a lower register visible at the bottom, the hieroglyph for "myrrh" at the lower right
43½ in. (110.5 cm.) long

来源

Swiss Private Collection, acquired in the 1940s.

拍品专文

The exaggerated size of the vessels suggests a Late Period date. So too the vessel shapes, many of which did not come into existence until Dynasty XVIII. The shoulders of the offering bearers are depicted in a variety of styles, from the very wide Old Kingdom style on the second figure from the left to the folded-over New Kingdom style on the pair to the right. This is a result of what Cooney called, "the archaizing impulse of Late Egyptian art." See p. 394 in Berman, Catalogue of Egyptian Art, The Cleveland Museum of Art.