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Description: | Solid terracotta head with very crude features. The eyes are bulbous, the nose is disproportionately large and the mouth has been modelled with an oval addition of clay. On the left, the subject appears to have worn a headdress or attachment; on the right the skull is flat at the back and ends in an ovoid at the top. Probably male and possibly one of the so-called grotesques. The long neck would suggest that the head was slotted into a body, which is typical of Greek-style terracottas of the Ptolemaic period. Nile silt clay. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Ptolemaic Period; start=-305; end=-30 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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