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An Egyptian limestone sculptor's model of a head of a king

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7 July 2016, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An Egyptian limestone sculptor's model of a head of a king
Late Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
Carved with serene features, wearing a headdress with central uraeus, surmounted by double feathers and ram's horns, 10cm high

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Provenance:
Swedish private collection, Stockholm, 2007-2016.
UK private collection, acquired in North Africa in the late 1950s-early 1960s.

Literature:
Cf. N. Tomoum, The Sculptors' Models of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods, Cairo, 2005, pl. 29, nos. 36-9.

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