Head of a King with a Striped Headcloth

664-525 BCE (Late Period; Saite) H: 9 13/16 in. (25 cm) Citation Source image

This head of a king is carved in the round and polished. He wears a royal headcloth with regular stripes, alternately polished and rough, with red coloring in the rough. The lappets have been destroyed. The piece is broken off at the neck and at the back. The head of a uraeus...

Sculpture

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23691
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sculpture
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unkown] (?); Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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2
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