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Description: | Fragment of a solid terracotta figure, only the head is preserved. The subject wears a short wig with ich decorated with impressed circles. According to Petrie this is a nnon-Egyptian type, althought he features are typical of 30th Dyanasty and early Ptolemaic portraits with a broad nose, archaising smile and almond shaped eyes. The subject wears a diadem or broad band on teh left side of the head which may have formed part of a crown. The top of the head is damaged but appears to be unworked 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=Second Persian Period; start=-343; end=-332 | 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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