Head of a Priest

Description Provenance Inscription Credit

Description This head of a priest is carved in the round. He has a shaved head that is round on top. There is a stele broken from his back.

Provenance William T. / Henry Walters Collection, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Number] On old label: 28; [Inscription] On old label: un tête egypt. epo. sait. en basalte.

Credit Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters

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664-525 BCE (Late Period; late Saite)

black granite
(Sculpture)

22.310

H: 3 9/16 in. (9 cm)