A Limestone Relief Fragment, early Ptolemaic Period, circa 305-200 B.C.

probably a sculptor's model or votive relief, finely carved in high relief on one side with part of the shoulder, collar and beard of a king or god, the collar with carefully incised detail and raised beading at the neckline, the beard with incised wavy linear detail, the reverse carved in shallower relief with the front of a right foot with gracefully elongated toes and finely delineated nails.

Spink & Son, Ltd., London, 1953
Dr. Hepworth
Mrs. B. Tait (Sotheby's, London, December 9th, 1993, no. 265)

As shown, note missing beads on collar, toes somewhat chipped and abraded in places, in the upper right corner above shoulder in front there is still a glued-on rectangular label printed 793 which was digitally removed in the catalogue photograph
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Cf. G. Steindorff, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1947, no. 338, for the reverse.