AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE PORTRAIT BUST OF A MAN
AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE PORTRAIT BUST OF A MAN
AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE PORTRAIT BUST OF A MAN
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AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE PORTRAIT BUST OF A MAN

LATE PERIOD, 26TH-27TH DYNASTY, 664-404 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GRANITE PORTRAIT BUST OF A MAN
LATE PERIOD, 26TH-27TH DYNASTY, 664-404 B.C.
9 in. (22.8 cm.) high
Provenance
Antiquities, Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, 13 December 1979, lot 73.
Charles Pankow (1923-2004), San Francisco.
The Charles Pankow Collection of Egyptian Art, Sotheby's, New York, 8 December 2004, lot 69.
with Galerie Günter Puhze, Freiburg, 2005 (Kunst der Antike, Katalog 19, no. 216).
Private Collection, Germany, acquired from the above, 2005; thence by descent to the current owner.
Literature
Apollo, November 1979, p. 181.
The Burlington Magazine, November 1979, p. cxxxix.
The Burlington Magazine, December 1979, p. xxviii.
H. Van Doren, ed., Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, San Francisco, 1981, pp. 4-5.
J. Malek, et al., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. 8, part 2, Oxford, 1999, p. 761, no. 801-722-600.
Exhibited
San Francisco, Van Doren Gallery; West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University; Santa Clara, Triton Museum of Art; San Diego Museum of Art; Honolulu, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, 1981.

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Lot Essay

The inscription along the proper right edge reads, "...white bread which is presented, produce of the land and every boundary (?)." The inscription across seven vertical lines of hieroglyphs along the back reads, "...making all (sorts of) beautiful offerings...in every festival of the month...in every festival of the half-month (?)...in...offerings...Wab-priest...crocodile (?)...the horizon..." The partially-preserved inscription along the top edge reads: "...the palace (or temple) which is in...his divinity.”

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