Portrait of Hor-Wer

ca. 250-150 BCE (Ptolemaic)

19.5 cm 30 cm 12 cm

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The elegance and lack of emotion in this statue's face characterize sculpture of the Ptolemaic Period. The inscription on the statue's back pillar records that Hor-wer was a member of the clergy and served three of the gods of the Theban area: Amen-re, Min, and Khonsu.

Sculpture

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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