Two-sided relief with portrait of a pharaoh and two heads

CultureEgyptian

Date664-30 B.C.E.

MediumLimestone

DimensionsOverall: 9 × 9 3/16 inches (22.86 × 23.34 cm)

Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust

Object number41-44

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On view

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DescriptionThe front half of the portrait of a king (and his left shoulder) lies begore a large, uncut ledge. The king's almond-shaped eye points down slightly and his brow is raised. The corners of his lips are turned up. He wears a nemes whose uraeus has a single coile. The three faint ink inscriptions in demotic name Pasherpamut, Udjaefsahor, and Chaienimu. The relief's reverse is upside-down. It has two shoulder-length figures: a man whose proper right shoulder is turned to the viewer and whose head is in profile; a woman behind him whose head is in profile and proper left shoulder is in frontal view.Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Egyptian Art under the Greeks and Romans: 332 B.C. to A.D. 330, University of Missouri-Columbia, Museum of Art and Archaeology, September 25-November 19, 1987, no. 12.

Through Ancient Eyes: Egyptian Portraiture, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, April 21-July 31, 1988, no. 46.

Provenance

With Dikran G. Kelekian, Inc., New York, stock no. 708-2, by 1941;

Purchased from Dikran G. Kelekian, Inc. by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1941.

Published References

Thomas Leipsner, “Modelle,” in Lexicon der Ägyptologie, vol. 4 (Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 1982), 178.

Jane Biers, Egyptian Art under the Greeks and the Romans, 332 B.C. to A.D. 330, exh. cat. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri-Columbia, 1987), no. 12.

Donald Spanel, Through Ancient Eyes: Egyptian Portraiture, exh. cat. (Birmingham, AL: Birmingham Museum of Art, 1988), 128, no. 46, 129, (repro.).

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