Idealized Head of an Egyptian Official

ca. 200-150 BCE (Ptolemaic)

11.2 cm 17.5 cm 14.5 cm

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Once part of a temple statue, this head has the idealized facial features common to private sculptures since the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. These features include rimmed eyes with thick lines in raised relief, full cheeks, and deep drilling at the corners of the mouth.

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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