LATE PERIOD, 25TH-26TH DYNASTY, 712-525 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN BASALT BUST OF DJED-HOR-IUF-ANKH
LATE PERIOD, 25TH-26TH DYNASTY, 712-525 B.C.
Likely originally depicted kneeling, with a fleshy torso, his arms at his sides and bent slightly forward at the elbows, the belt of his kilt preserved, wearing a smooth bag wig, his oval face with narrow slanted eyes, the upper lids with extended cosmetic lines and conforming brows, his lips pursed into a slight smile, his ears prominent, the back-pillar with a two-column hieroglyphic inscription, reading: "A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West(?), Lord of Abydos(?): Invocation-Offerings of...and milk...[Anubis, Lord of the] Sacred [Land (i.e. cemetery)], for(?) the Venerated One before...Djed-Hor-iuf-ankh son of(?) the wab-priest(?) of Neith...," the top of the head with a conical depression from secondary usage
10¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Auktion 555, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, 24-27 November 1976, lot 1946.

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Lot Essay

The facial features of this statue recall the portraiture of the Pharaoh Psammetichus II. Compare, for example, the greywacke head in the Musée Jacquenart-André, no. 93 in O. Perdu, Le Crépuscule des Pharaons, Chefs-d'oeuvre des dernières dynasties égyptiennes.

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