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For similar examples see nos. 181-183 in Tomoum, The Sculptors' Models of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods.
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PROPERTY FROM AN INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SCULPTOR'S MODEL
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE SCULPTOR'S MODEL
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
In the form of a votive sistrum in relief, with a frontal head of the cow-eared goddess Hathor, with a broad triangular face and a voluminous plain wig, wearing a beaded necklace, her eyelids, cosmetic lines and conforming brows finely sculpted in relief, surmounted by a headdress in the form of a protruding cavetto molding supporting a naos with a uraeus in the recessed central panel, volutes along the sides
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 304-30 B.C.
In the form of a votive sistrum in relief, with a frontal head of the cow-eared goddess Hathor, with a broad triangular face and a voluminous plain wig, wearing a beaded necklace, her eyelids, cosmetic lines and conforming brows finely sculpted in relief, surmounted by a headdress in the form of a protruding cavetto molding supporting a naos with a uraeus in the recessed central panel, volutes along the sides
9¼ in. (23.5 cm.) high
Provenance
with C. Dikran Kelekian, New York, 1975.
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