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Head of a god or youth
Cypriote
Cypro-Archaic Period
600–575 B.C.
Findspot: Egypt, Naukratis
Medium/Technique
Limestone
Dimensions
10.2 cm (4 in.)
Credit Line
Egypt Exploration Fund by subscription
Accession Number86.158
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CollectionsAncient Greece and Rome
ClassificationsSculpture
Catalogue Raisonné
Sculpture in Stone (MFA), no. 410.
DescriptionThe head is somewhat battered, and the features are rather worn. The young man wears a headcloth and hair which falls in cloth-covered braids onto the back, either side of and over the neck. The figure was clad in a long garment of Eastern type.
ProvenanceFrom Naukratis. 1885: excavated by William Matthew Flinders Petrie for the Egypt Exploration Fund, assigned to the EEF by the Egyptian government; October 28, 1885: voted to the MFA at EEF general meeting; sent over February 1886. (Accession date: 1886).