Lot no. 99
FRAGMENTARY RELIEF OF A CHILD-GOD IN SANDSTONE
Egyptian art, Ptolemaic period, 332-30 BC
Fragment decorated in light relief with a child-god in profile to the right, depicted standing naked, wearing a pschent with a child's wick, holding his left index finger to his mouth and an ankh cross in his right hand.
Visible damage.
Height: 36.9 cm
Provenance: Former Ernst Kofler (1903-1990) collection, Lucerne, 1960s
Bonhams, London, 1 May 2008: no. 100 (ill.)
Christian Levett Collection, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins
Exhibitions: Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, June 2011-August 2023
Bibliography: P. Clayton, "Ancient Egypt" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 50, fig. 36
An Egyptian sandstone relief fragment,
Ptolemaic Period, 332-30 B.C.
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