AN EGYPTIAN BASALT HEAD OF A MAN, LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 100-30 B.C.

Other Properties
AN EGYPTIAN BASALT HEAD OF A MAN, LATE PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 100-30 B.C.

his youthful face with mouth rounded at the corners, large eyes probably once inlaid, and short roughly worked hair.
Height 11 cm.

Condition Report:
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Provenance:
French private collection, early 20th Century (based on tapering red marble base and old label with cut corners inscribed in ink: "Tête romaine / Granite noir / Antique")

French private collection, acquired in the 1970s

Hôtel Drouot, Crait-Muller, commissaires-priseurs, February 15th, 2019, no. 12