An Egyptian Granite Head of a Man, 18th Dynasty, period of Amenhotep III, 1403-1365 B.C.

wearing a double wig of radiating wavy locks over echeloned rectangular curls below the ears, his youthful face with full lips, broad straight nose, and large almond-shaped eyes with long eyebrows and cosmetic lines in relief.

Spink & Son, Ltd., London
Mr. & Mrs. Meyer P. Potamkin, acquired from the above in 1967 (Sotheby’s, New York, November 24th, 1987, no. 44, illus.)
German Private Collection (Sotheby’s, London, July 8th, 1993, no. 142, illus.)
European private collection, formed between 1983 and 1999

Jaromir Malek, Diana Magee, and Elizabeth Miles, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. VIII, part II, Oxford, 1999, no. 810-653-935

Good and as shown in the photos. Note large chip on nose. Very minor nicks and abrasions elsewhere. Back of the wig abraded. Top of the head roughly worked and deeply abraded area on the top of the proper right side of the head.
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