Cult attendant wearing a grotesque half-mask

Classification

statuette ; sculpture / statue

Culture

Graeco-Egyptian (culture)

Dimensions

height: 6.6 cm

Date

2nd–1st century B.C. (?)

Period

Ptolemaic period (323–30)

Material

clay

Iconography

male figure ; half-mask ; floral wreath ; lotus crown ; ribbon

Production place

Egypt

Findspot

Egypt?

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Arndt, Paul (1865–1937)

Inventory

T.508

ID

Hyp-6735

Condition

Head and left arm of a statuette, the rest of the body is missing.

References

Oroszlán 1930, 72, no. D 83; Török 1995, 125, no. 167, pl. XCII; Franken, in AK 45 (2002), 61, 66, pl. 14, fig. 6

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