Head of an official

Unknown

400–200 B.C. · Quartzite · Egyptian Art

Although the size of this head testifies to a very small statue, its commissioner was able to acquire a fine dense quartzite stone. The head shows no evidence of adjacent horizontal surfaces such as one would expect with a block statue, so it was most probably part of a small striding statue, and could also have held a divine figure or a naos.

Artist

Unknown

Date

400–200 B.C.

Medium

Quartzite

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Theodore M. Davis Collection, Bequest of Theodore M. Davis, 1915