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Limestone sculptor's model | |
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Title/s | Limestone sculptor's model |
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Name | |
Description | Bull hindquarters on one side, human head on other side, fragment. Representing a goddess or deified queen with bull on reverse. |
Production Notes | This piece can be dated to the first century BC on stylistic grounds and perhaps associated with Cleopatra VII on account of the bull: the ruler made dedications to the Buchis bull at Armant. |
Field Collection | Egypt |
Dimensions |
length 12.3
cm |
Period | |
Date | circa 51 B.C. — 30 B.C. |
Provenance | bequeathed: Gayer-Anderson, Major R.G. 1943 (Filtered for: Antiquities) |
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Accession Number | E.GA.89.1949 (Antiquities) |
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