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Limestone practice piece | |
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Title/s | Limestone practice piece |
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Description | sculptors trial piece, human head. Such objects can be divided into student practice pieces, master sculptor's trial pieces and models. This object is likely to have been a practice piece. On other examples the student repeats the exercise. Here there would have been space for three other heads (as is normal) but for whatever reason the relief was abandoned. |
Production Notes | or later |
Field Collection | Egypt |
Dimensions |
depth 5.2
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Date | circa 1352 B.C. — 1336 B.C. |
Provenance | bequeathed: Gayer-Anderson, R.G. (Major) 1943 (Filtered for: Antiquities) |
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Accession Number | E.GA.4508.1943 (Antiquities) |
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