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Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, 331-30 B.C.
1 3/8 in. (4 1/8 in.) (29 grams, 35 mm (57.6 grams total, 10.4 cm)).
Small carved head with bobbed curly wig and and narrow hair band or diadem; surface slightly worn; mounted on a display stand.
PROVENANCE:
Antoni Sikorski collection, London, formed between the 1950s and 1970s.
with Chiswick Auctions, 11 May 2016, no.37 [Part].
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D’Amato.
FOOTNOTES:
Although worn, the presence of the narrow diadem and curly hair suggest that the head might depict a Ptolemaic priest. For better-preserved examples of the type cf. Bothmer, B.V., Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period 700 B.C. to A.D. 100, New York, 1960, pp. 178-179, pls. 128 and 129, 343; Spier, J., Potts, T., and Cole, S.E. (eds.), Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the classical world, Los Angeles, 2018, p. 169 no. 101.
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