Relief: Head of Ptah (?)
Relief: Head of Ptah (?)

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Relief: Head of Ptah (?)

Egyptian
New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, ca. 1550–1070 BCE
y1965-86

Information

Title
Relief: Head of Ptah (?)
Medium
Yellow-brown quartzite, irregularly streaked
Dimensions
33.5 x 19 x 6.5 cm (13 3/16 x 7 1/2 x 2 9/16 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of an Anonymous Donor
Object Number
y1965-86
Place Excavated

Egypt, Memphis

Culture
Egyptian (ancient)
Period
Eighteenth Dynasty
Type
reliefs
Materials
quartzite
Subject
deities, mythology, caps (headgear), beards, heads

Said to be from Tel Nowa (Mitrahina), Memphis, Egypt; Purchased by the Museum in 1965; purchased by Mathias Komor in 1963 from Sotheby's, acquired from an unknown source; purchased by the Museum in 1965 from Komor through an anonymous gift.

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