Unfinished Statue of a Man

ca. 525-340 BCE (Late Period)

11.6 cm 21.5 cm 12.1 cm

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The top of a wrap-around garment is seen on this unfinished work. It may have been intended as a royal statue, then altered for a private owner, which would explain the chiseled area on the forehead where the uraeus serpent, a symbol of royalty, may have been.

Sculpture

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4620
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sculpture
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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7
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