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LOT 0024
Egyptian Diorite Bust of a Dignitary
LATE PERIOD, 664-332 B.C.
7 7/8 in. (2.03 kg total, 20 cm high including stand).
Wearing a heavy wig over a rounded face with cosmetic lines and eyebrows in raised relief; vertical dorsal pillar with partial hieroglyphs to the reverse; some re-cutting, mounted on a custom-made display stand.
Provenance
Ex Jean-Paul Bourgis collection, Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France, 1980.
This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate no.12128-213629.
Literature
Cf. Bothmer, B. V., Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C. to A.D. 100, New York, 1960, pls.45, no.111, and 55, no.136.
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