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Source Description
Once part of a statue placed in a temple as a votive gift, the sculpture shows an elderly man with firmly set facial features. When complete, the statue showed the owner offering a "naos" or shrine, to his god. Signs of age, with hints of bittersweet emotion, appear only in the private sculpture of the Late Period and Ptolemaic Period, never in royal works. This is in direct opposition to works of the Middle Kingdom where signs of age, weariness, and care appeared first in royal facial features.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
8571
label
Standing Man
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
8571
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Standing Man
description
Once part of a statue placed in a temple as a votive gift, the sculpture shows an elderly man with firmly set facial features. When complete, the statue showed the owner offering a "naos" or shrine, to his god. Signs of age, with hints of bittersweet emotion, appear only in the private sculpture of the Late Period and Ptolemaic Period, never in royal works. This is in direct opposition to works of the Middle Kingdom where signs of age, weariness, and care appeared first in royal facial features.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1st century BCE-1st century CE (Ptolemaic-Roman (?))
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
sculpture (visual works)
statutes
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
17.5
height
11
depth
8.7
dimensionsRaw
6 7/8 x 4 5/16 x 3 3/8 in. (17.5 x 11 x 8.7 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
dynasty
Ptolemaic
med
carved gray-black basalt
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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49560eda83ec4149