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Royal Headearly Ptolemaic Period (c. 300 BCE)

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Stone sculptural head, three-quarter view, with smooth facial features and a cap of tightly carved concentric circles representing hair, showing weathering and surface cracks
Fragmentary limestone sculpture of a human head in three-quarter view, with finely carved facial features and a headdress or hair covering decorated with circular ring-and-dot patterns in relief; weathered and pitted surface.

Unknown, Royal Head, early Ptolemaic Period (c. 300 BCE), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Royal Head
Place Made
Egypt
Date Made
early Ptolemaic Period (c. 300 BCE)
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
3 7/16 × 2 × 3 in. (8.73 × 5.08 × 7.62 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Varya and Hans Cohn
Accession Number
AC1992.152.64
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Egyptian Art
Provenance
[Ars Antiqua, Lucerne]. Leo Mildenberg (1913–2001), Zurich. Hans Cohn (1903–1994), Los Angeles, in 1967, gift 1992 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Thomas, Nancy, and Constantina Oldknow, eds. By Judgment of the Eye: The Varya and Hans Cohn Collection. Los Angeles: Hans Cohn, 1991.

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