Head of a Man

2nd century BCE-early 1st century CE (Ptolemaic-Roman)

10 cm 12.2 cm 11 cm

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This depiction of a young man with abundant curly hair combines features of both Egyptian and Greek sculpture of the Hellenistic Period (331-30 BCE). Egyptian elements include the use of the hard, dark stone, the precision with which the eyes have been carved, and the use of c...

Sculpture

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36316
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sculpture
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provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Luxor]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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5
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