Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing. Ptolemaic Period, ca. 304-30 BC. Sculpted in raised relief with the torso of a King, moving to the right,wearing a kilt just below his rounded navel, a staff in his extended left hand, his fingernails delineated, a bolt of cloth (?) in his fisted right hand, part of his broad collar below his unfinished neck and a lappet of his nemes-head cloth; zigzag scratches at the upper right corner where the carving tool was honed. 5-1/2"W (14 cm). For a similar example see no. 80 in Tomoum, The Sculptor's Models of the Late and Ptolemaic Periods
Antiquities Ancient Egyptian
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