OLD KINGDOM, 4TH DYNASTY, 2575-2465 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN INDURATED LIMESTONE HEAD OF A MAN
OLD KINGDOM, 4TH DYNASTY, 2575-2465 B.C.
Finely sculpted, his oval face with a low forehead, his eyes widely spaced beneath naturalistically-rounded brow ridges, the eyes convex with shallow hollows at their inner corners, the upper lids arching and rimmed by an incised line, the lower lids undercut, the lids forming a point at their outer corners, incised slits at the inner canthi extending onto the sides of the thick nasal root, with high cheekbones, the preserved corner of the mouth indented, wearing a short wig with curls arranged in horizontal rows, each separated by vertical lines and defined by two or three diagonal incisions, the top of the wig centered by a disk with a small central depression with radiating lines forming triangular strands, the wig closely fitted at the front and sides, overhanging at the back, with tapered sideburns, the helix of the ears flat against the wig
5¼ in. (13.3 cm.) high

來源

Acquired in Giza in 1904 by Dikran G. Kelekian (1868-1952), New York, Paris, and Cairo.
with Charles D. Kelekian (1900-1982), Paris and New York.

出版

E.R. Russmann, "Two Heads of the Early Fourth Dynasty," Kunst des Alten Reiches, Symposium im Deutschen Archäologischen Institut Kairo am 29. und 30. Oktober 1991, Mainz, 1995, pp. 111-118, pls. 42a-d.

展覽

Brooklyn Museum, 1980-1985 (L.80.1.13).

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Molly Morse Limmer

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Russman (p. 117, op. cit.) links the present example to a royal head in Berlin (pls. 43c-d, op. cit.), which may represent the Pharaoh Khufu. Aspects of the present head more closely recall the figure of Hemiunu, now in Hildesheim, who was the nephew and vizier (chief minister) of Khufu. Hemiunu supervised the building of the Fourth Dynasty ruler's Great Pyramid and other works at Giza. For Hemiunu, see pp. 229-233 in Arnold, et al., Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids.

OLD KINGDOM, 4TH DYNASTY, 2575-2465 B.C.

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