Head of a Priest

ca. 300 BCE (Ptolemaic)

5.5 cm 9.1 cm 7.4 cm

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Presumably from a temple sculpture, this head represents an elderly man with individualized facial features. The statue to which it once belonged was probably quite traditional in its pose and execution.This piece depicts a priest from the Ptolemaic Period. Statues of bald-he...

Sculpture

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Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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