AN EGYPTIAN RED QUARTZITE HEAD OF A PRIEST

EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN RED QUARTZITE HEAD OF A PRIEST
EARLY PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 4TH CENTURY B.C.
With a creased forehead and shaven egg-shaped skull, his oval face with a slightly creased forehead, almond-shaped eyes, prominent cheek bones and thin smiling lips, with full jowls with two incised creases on the neck
8 7/8 in. (22.5 cm.) high

Provenance

with Heinz Herzer, Munich, 1978.
Resandro collection, acquired from the above in 1986.

Exhibited

Schloss Morsbroich and Munich, Museum Morsbroich, Municpal Museum Leverkusen and Kunsthalle of the Hypo Cultural Foundation, Ägyptische und moderne Skulptur, Aufbruch und Dauer, 24 January-22 June 1986.
Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung; Berlin, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin; Munich, Staatliche Sammlung Ägyptischer Kunst Munchen; Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Gott und Götter im Alten Ägypten, 1992-1993.

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Herzer, 1986, end paper, front and back.
Schoske & Wildung, 1993, p. 212, no. 134.
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 144, no. R-411.

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