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PROPERTY FROM A DISTINGUISHED PRIVATE COLLECTION
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE DOUBLE-SIDED VOTIVE RELIEF OR SCULPTOR'S MODEL
LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
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AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE DOUBLE-SIDED VOTIVE RELIEF OR SCULPTOR'S MODEL
LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
One side with a king striding to the right, holding an ankh in his lowered right hand, his left extending forward, wearing a belted kilt with a ceremonial bull's tail, a collar, and a nemes-headcloth fronted by a uraeus, grid-lines visible on the headdress, on the left border and along the raised panel at the upper right; the other side with falcon-headed Horus holding a was-scepter in his left hand, wearing a belted kilt with a ceremonial bull's tail, painted armlets, a collar, a bracelet, a tripartite wig, and the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt with ram's horns and plumes, grid-lines preserved on the left border and along the raised panel at the upper right, traces of pigment preserved
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND-1ST CENTURY B.C.
One side with a king striding to the right, holding an ankh in his lowered right hand, his left extending forward, wearing a belted kilt with a ceremonial bull's tail, a collar, and a nemes-headcloth fronted by a uraeus, grid-lines visible on the headdress, on the left border and along the raised panel at the upper right; the other side with falcon-headed Horus holding a was-scepter in his left hand, wearing a belted kilt with a ceremonial bull's tail, painted armlets, a collar, a bracelet, a tripartite wig, and the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt with ram's horns and plumes, grid-lines preserved on the left border and along the raised panel at the upper right, traces of pigment preserved
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high
Provenance
with Phocion Tano, Cairo.
Private Collection, North America, 1950s-first half of 1970s.
North American Private Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 1993, lot 51.
Private Collection, North America, 1950s-first half of 1970s.
North American Private Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 12 June 1993, lot 51.
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