An Egyptian Basalt Torso of a Man, 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C

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Property from a Belgian Private Collection

An Egyptian Basalt Torso of a Man

26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C

striding and holding short staves in his clenched h🧸ands, and wearing a pleated kilt with broad belt and central tab, the back and one side of the back pillar finely carved in sunk relief with inscriptions.

Height 24.8 cm.

Please note that the present lot was recorded at Galerie Le Corneur-Roudillon in Paris in November 1969 by French Egyptologist Jacques Clère, whose archive is preserved at the Griffith Institute, Oxford University.

Galerie Le Corneur-Roudillon, Paris, by 1969 (recorded there in November 1969 by Eg▨yptologist Jacques Je𒐪an Clère [1906-1989], whose archive is preserved at the Griffith Institute, Oxford University:

Japanese private collection, acquired in Japan i🧸n 1974 (Sotheby’s, New York, December 5th, 2007, no. 22, illus.)

acquired by the present owner at the above sale

The inscription identifies the owner as “scribe of the first team of the Temple of Nekhbet, third prophet of Montu lord of Tod, and prophet of Min and Harpocrates-child of the Temple of Tod”.