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Statue of a priest

Statue of a priest





Artist : Anonymous

Date : near 350 B.C.

Material : Quartzite
Acquisition : Purchase (1987)
British Museum
Egyptian sculpture
Ground Floor - Section 4
Item 54 on 62
Ancient Egypt
Sculpture

Area related
Egypte

Description   

Provenance unknown, but Zagazig and Bubastis have been suggested. This statue is of a shaven-headed priest holding a shrine or a naos. The roughe surface and the absence of anything in the shrine show that it is unfinished.
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