EGYPT

Sculptor's model for the head of a king
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI 664 BCE-525 BCE

Medium

plaster

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Howard Spensley, 1939
© Public Domain

Gallery location: 18th Century Decorative Arts - Great Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International

Artwork Details

Medium

plaster

Measurements

17.5 × 10.0 × 10.4 cm

Place/s of Execution

Egypt

Accession Number

4160-D3

Department

Antiquities

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Bequest of Howard Spensley, 1939
© Public Domain
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of Digitisation Champion Ms Carol Grigor through Metal Manufactures Limited

Gallery location

18th Century Decorative Arts - Great Hall Costume Corridor
Level 2, NGV International

Physical description

Model of a royal head with the royal headdress and uraeus. The features are well executed with distinctly softer modelling around the nose and mouth, a feature indicative of the Ptolemaic Period. The facial features are quite worn and the back of the headdress, from the ears, has broken away.

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EGYPT

Sculptor's model for the head of a king
Late Period, Dynasty XXVI 664 BCE-525 BCE