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Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Votive Relief of a King

Votive Relief of a King

305–246 BCE
(332 BCE–395 CE), Ptolemaic dynasty (305–30 BCE)
Overall: 13.6 x 8.9 x 1.8 cm (5 3/8 x 3 1/2 x 11/16 in.)
Location: 107 Egyptian

Description

Trial pieces—carved on limestone flakes, or ostraca—and sculptors' models allow us to see how the ancient Egyptian artist approached his work. Showing the profile of a king in relief, this piece is a masterpiece in its own right, and was probably meant to be copied.
  • Purchased from Nicolas Tano, Cairo, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
  • Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 471
    Cafici, Giorgia. The Egyptian Elite As Roman Citizens: Looking at Ptolemaic Private Portraiture. 2021, 98. Mentioned: p. 98, note 240.
  • CMA 1916, no. 3, p. 204, pl. 34
  • {{cite web|title=Votive Relief of a King|url=false|author=|year=305–246 BCE|access-date=28 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1914.665