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Source Description
This statuette is carved in the round. It depicts a seated man with an inscription on his chest, right and left arms, and pilaster at the rear.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
21998
label
Head and Torso of a Seated Man
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
21998
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Head and Torso of a Seated Man
description
This statuette is carved in the round. It depicts a seated man with an inscription on his chest, right and left arms, and pilaster at the rear.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
664-525 BCE (Late Period; Saite)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
figurines
statuettes
sculpture
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 6 7/16 in. (16.4 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
inscriptions
[Translation] The king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Nefer-ib-Re, the good god, Psametik, living eternally, like Re.
An offering that the king gives [to] Bastet, the eye of Re, the mistress of the 'Life of the two lands,' who sees (?) the sun-disc... [From Steindorff 1946, p. 52]
dynasty
26th Dynasty
med
dark stone
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
b0e60dad1ea2b9d7