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Description : from a block-statue, wearing a short beard and wide wig falling behind the ears to the shoulders and back-pillar, his youthful idealizing face with mouth rounded at the corners, outlined lips, straight nose, almond-shaped eyes, and outlined tapering eyebrows in relief, the back-pillar carved with four columns of inscription flanked by the remains of three lines on the shoulders, the inscriptions including part of the hetep-di-nesu formula, addressing Amun-Ra.

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About the lot N° 67
Title : Indurated Limestone Head Of A Man
Size : height 7 in. 17.8 cm., width of back-pillar at break 5 in. 12.7 cm.
Provenance : Sotheby Parke Bernet, New York, December 11th, 1980, no. 303, illus.
Literature : Egyptian Antiquities from the Charles Pankow Collection, 1981, p. 17, illus.Jaromir Malek, Diana Magee, and Elizabeth Miles, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings VIII. Objects of Provenance not known, Oxford, 1999, no. 801-766-430
Notes : For a related example see Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, no. 5.

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