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Description:
Limestone sculptor's or apprentice's trial piece, worked on both sides.
The front is carved in high relief with the right side of the head of a king wearing a nemes headdress with uraeus. Faint lines have been carved into the surface of the limestone to provide a grid within which the portrait could be carved more accurately. The reverse is more roughly carved with the outline of the right side of the head of a king, with left arm outstretched.
Circa 350 BCE.
Notes:
The possible source is the temple of Ptah at Memphis. Ptah was the god of craftsmen and his temple workshops set standards for all craftsmen.| Object details | |
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| Type of object: | Sculpture |
| Type category: | Sculpture in the round |
| Material: | Limestone |
| Width: | 97 mm |
| Height: | 113 mm |
| Depth: | 28 mm |
| Origin | |
| Style/Period: | Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Period |
| Date range: | - |
| Discovery site: | Graeco-Roman Period, Ptolemaic Period |
| Environment: | |
| Creator | |
| Technique: | |
| Personal name: | - |
| Role: | - |
| Culture: | Egyptian |
| Record data | |
| Artworld id: | 00007 |
| Current accession number: | - |
| Former accession number: | WEL 230 |
| Credit line: | - |
| Recorded by: | LW |
| Record date: | Mon, 5th Nov 2001 |
| Copyright: | Copyright© by the Oriental Museum, University of Durham, Durham, 2002. All Rights reserved |