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Egyptian painted relief fragment
Late period, c. 600 B.C.
(Dynasty 26. 664-525 B.C)
Limestone
Height: 12.8 cm
(Stock no 8624)
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This exquisite fragment depicts a small sensitively modelled head of a young person. The limestone still retains some pigment – a light ochre band across the centre of the stone. The piece was most certainly from a larger richly carved slab of very fine quality.
