Fragment of a Face from a Relief

Description This fragment is carved in low relief. It depicts a chin, mouth and nose, complete and in three quarters view. The eye is hollow and is filled with a white paste. The piece is broken across the eye. The back is smooth.

Provenance Maurice Nahman, Cairo and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as 12th Dynasty]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929