AN EGYPTIAN FRAGMENTARY BLACK BASALT HEAD OF A MAN, 12TH DYNASTY, PERIOD OF AMENEMHAT III, 1818-1772 B.C. | An Egyptian Fragmentary Black Basalt Head of a Man

wearing a wide striated beard and broad striated wig passing behind the ears, with full lips deeply indented at the corners, straight nose, and large wide-set with long eyebrows in shallow relief.

Alan Brandt, New York, 1972
Christos G. Bastis, New York (Sotheby's, New York, Antiquities from the Collection of the Late Christos G. Bastis, December 9th, 1999, no. 12, illus.)
acquired from the above sale by the present owner

Formerly on loan to The Brooklyn Museum of Art, 1976-1999 [inv. no. L72.9]

Antiquities from the Collection of Christos G. Bastis, catalogue of the exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1987, no. 1, illus.

Fragmentary as shown. Surface lightly worn and pitted, especially on top of wig.
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Cf. J. Vandier, Manuel d'Archéologie Égyptienne, vol. III, Les Grandes Epoques, La Statuaire, Paris, 1958, pl. LXXC, 5-6.