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Description : late period, dynasty xxx, 360-343 b.c. Depicted wearing a high-domed blue crown adorned with a double-looped uraeus, his somewhat triangular face with a small, rounded chin, his full lips drawn into a sickle-shaped smile deeply drilled at the corners, the filtrum indicated, his horizontally placed almond-shaped convex eyes beneath thin naturalistic brows 11.13/16 in. (30 cm.) high PROVENANCE European Private Collection LITERATURE Josephson, Egyptian Royal Sculpture of the Late Period, 400-246 B.C., p. 28, pl. 10c. EXHIBITION The Brooklyn Museum, July 1993 to July 1995 NOTES Nectanebo II (Nakhthoreb) was the last native pharaoh of ancient Egypt. He was a dynamic ruler whose reign of nearly two decades has been justly characterized as a renaissance in art and learning. Nectanebo II commissioned the erection or restoration of monumental temples throughout the land, including the multi-storied shrine to Isis, built of Aswan granite in the Delta at Iseion. Although he was forced to flee to Nubia in the wake of the Persian invasion, later generations remembered Nectanebo II in flattering terms. In the romantic history of Alexander the Great written by Pseudo-Callisthenes during the Roman Imperial period, Nectanebo II appears in Macedonia as an itinerant magician-priest whose powers, on behalf of the Egyptian state god Amun, engender Olympias with the future Alexander the Great. There are only two other royal portraits wearing the Blue Crown, also uninscribed, which are thought to represent Nectanebo II: a quartzite head in the University Museum, University of Pennsylvania and a basalt head in Alexandria. See plates 10a-b in Josephson, Egyptian Royal Sculpture of the Late Period 400-246 B.C..
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