Head of a Queen

2119-1793 BCE (?) (Middle Kingdom (?)) H: 4 1/2 in. (11.5 cm) Citation Source image

This head of a queen is carved in the round and broken off at the neck. She has long hair, divided over her shoulders. The uraeus has been removed from her forehead.

Sculpture

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31003
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sculpture
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normalized
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provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1927 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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1
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