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LOT 0434
Egyptian Small Head with Wig
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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