Property from an East Coast Private Collection

An Egyptian Limestone Relief Fragment

late 25th/early 26th Dynasty, circa 670-650 B.C.

finely carved in shallow relief with a head of a woman facing left, and wearing a broad-collar and a tripartite wig, her face with full lips drilled at the corner, prominent straight nose, and large eye with contoured upper lid and tapering eyebrow and cosmeti༺c line in sh𒁃allow relief, the two columns of inscription above translating: ""[his wife? whom] he [loves], the Mistress of the house [... ...]-neb-bi(a)t, true of voice." traces of blue pigment remaining.

24.1 by 16.8 cm.