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Source Description
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.
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Document identity
localId
4620
label
Unfinished Statue of a Man
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
7
Source metadata
id
4620
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Unfinished Statue of a Man
description
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.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 525-340 BCE (Late Period)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
sculpture (visual works)
statues
imageCount
7
pageCount
7
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
21.5
height
11.6
depth
12.1
dimensionsRaw
8 7/16 x 4 9/16 x 4 3/4 in. (21.5 x 11.6 x 12.1 cm);mount: 5 5/16 x 4 13/16 x 5 1/8 in. (13.5 x 12.2 x 13 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
dynasty
27th-30th Dynasty
med
granodiorite
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6182
collection_ids
EGY
exhibition_ids
none
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