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PROPERTY FROM A MIDWESTERN UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR
AN EGYPTIAN YELLOW LIMESTONE BUST OF A MAN
MIDDLE KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIII, 1783-1640 B.C.
Details
AN EGYPTIAN YELLOW LIMESTONE BUST OF A MAN
MIDDLE KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIII, 1783-1640 B.C.
Wearing a plain wig straight across his forehead, with large ears, elongated almond-shaped eyes with thick lids, a broad nose and fleshy lips, sporting a long chin beard, his shoulders sloping, his torso tapering toward the narrow waist, the back pillar rising above the shoulders and overlapping the lower edge of the wig, preserving two columns of now-illegible hieroglyphs
6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high
MIDDLE KINGDOM, DYNASTY XIII, 1783-1640 B.C.
Wearing a plain wig straight across his forehead, with large ears, elongated almond-shaped eyes with thick lids, a broad nose and fleshy lips, sporting a long chin beard, his shoulders sloping, his torso tapering toward the narrow waist, the back pillar rising above the shoulders and overlapping the lower edge of the wig, preserving two columns of now-illegible hieroglyphs
6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high
Provenance
Art Market, U.S. or Europe, circa 1969-early 1970s.
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