An Egyptian Bronze Head of a Divinity or Ruler, 21st/22nd Dynasty, 1080-720 B.C.
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Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
An Egyptian Bronze Head of a Divinity or Ruler
21st/22nd Dynasty, 1080-720 B.C.
wearing the crown of Lower Egypt, a tenon above the forehead for the fragmentary head of the uraeus, his broad face with large eyes, eyebrows, cosmetic lines an🦩d beardstraps formerly inlaid, the remains of a tenon under the chin for the missing beard.
Height 7.6 cm.
Sotheby's, New York, June 8th, 1✤984, no. 217, illus.
private collection, New York
acquired by the present owner from the above