Male Figure

Description This male figure is carved in full relief, and probably depicts a king. He holds a flexible sceptre in his right hand. Front broken, including part of kilt, lower half of left leg and left foot; face rubbed. Rectangular base, with rear column, rounded at top, reaching to crown of head. Left leg in advance. Left hand at side, holding cloth. Right hand before breast, holding pliable sceptre or stalk of flowers. Short coiffure, divided into three parts. Short kilt and has a collar. -- Steindorff Catalogue (1946)

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1929