Statue
Sculptor's Model
Votive
E13658
From: Egypt | Mit-Rahineh
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
Object Number | E13658 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Ptolemaic |
Provenience | Egypt | Mit-Rahineh |
Locus | Strip 1 |
Period | Late Period | Ptolemaic Period | Thirty-Third Dynasty |
Date Made | 664 - 30 BCE |
Section | Egyptian |
Materials | Limestone | Pigment |
Iconography | King |
Description | Sculptor's Model/Votive of a Ptolemaic King's head. The face is well preserved, but there is breakage on the bottom of his headdress and neck. The backside is flat and shows a grid. This model retains pigment hastily applied on the nemes headdress (red) and around the eyes (black). Shows artist's divisions |
Height | 8.7 cm |
Width | 8.4 cm |
Depth | 5.8 cm |
Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Mit-Rahineh (Memphis), Egypt; Clarence Stanley Fisher, 1915 |
Other Number | M344 - Field No SF |
Report problems and issues to digitalmedia@pennmuseum.org.