AN EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA HEAD
AN EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA HEAD

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN TERRACOTTA HEAD
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
Hand modelled with a long neck projecting forward, the oval face with slanted brows, bulging eyes, and a triangular nose, the mouth not indicated, the hair fashioned from rows of applied pellets of varying size
3¾ in. (9.5 cm.) high
來源
Said to be from Tell el-Yahudiyeh.
with Khawam Brothers, Egypt, circa 1940.

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For a similar example found by Petrie at Memphis see no. UC48515 in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archeology. Petrie identified the museum's example as a depiction of a Hebrew, but modern scholarship takes a more skeptical view on such an attribution.