Sculptor's Model of a King Slaying an Enemy

Description The two-dimensional model, executed in a combination of sunk and raised relief, displays a king slaying a Libyan enemy. The king's lion is accompanying him and bites into the left arm of the half-kneeling Libyan. Such motifs were popular in ancient Egypt from the 4th millennium BCE.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
8/23/1972	Treatment	cleaned
7/03/1974	Treatment	stabilized
9/03/1974	Treatment	stabilized
8/17/1998	Examination	survey
10/26/2000	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• The Ancient World and the Ballets Russes (WT). Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York. 2019.

Provenance Khawam brothers, Cairo, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1930