An Egyptian Basalt Portrait Head of a Man, late Ptolemaic period, circa 100-30 B.C.

with trapezoidal back-pillar, his face with prominent chin, wide mouth with full lips, broad philtrum, fragmentary aquiline nose, and large deep-set eyes beneath a furrowed brow, the short roughly worked hair surmounted by a grooved diadem, the folds of his garment remaining over the left shoulder, mounted on a late 19th Century stepped alabaster base.

said to have been found at Bubastis
Hilton-Price Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, London, Catalogue of the Important and Extensive Collection of Egyptian Antiquities the Property of the late F.G. Hilton-Price, Esq., Director of the Society of Antiquaries, &c., July 12th-14th and 17th-21st, 1911)
Sotheby's, New York, June 5th, 1999, no. 66, illus.
Robin Symes, Ltd., London

A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of F. G. Hilton-Price, Dir. S.A., London, 1897, p. 374, no. 3124, illus. (line drawing)

As shown. Note chipped nose and proper-right eyebrow. Surface appears to be waxed. The object is firmly riveted to its base.
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Cf. B. Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 1960, nos. 131-136, for related examples.