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Head of a queen, from a sphinx

1897–1878 B.C.
FindspotSaid to be from Matariya, Egypt
Medium/TechniqueQuartzite
DimensionsWidth x height x depth: 24 x 27 x 22 cm (9 7/16 x 10 5/8 x 8 11/16 in.)
Credit LinePartial gift of Magda Saleh and Jack A. Josephson in honor of Dr. Rita E. Freed, Norma Jean Calderwood Curator of Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art and museum purchase with funds from the Florence E. and Horace L. Mayer Funds, Egyptian Curator's Fund, Marilyn M. Simpson Fund, Norma Jean and Stanford Calderwood Discretionary Fund, Mr. and Mrs. James M. Vaughn, Jr., The Vaughn Foundation Fund, Egyptian Deaccession Fund, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Valentine, Jane Marsland and Judith A. Marsland Fund, Ernest Kahn Fund, Susan Cornelia Warren Fund, Samuel Putnam Avery Fund, Mary L. Smith Fund, John Wheelock Elliot and John Morse Elliot Fund, Mary E. Moore Gift, Mrs. James Evans Ladd, Frank Jackson and Nancy McMahon, Alice M. Bartlett Fund, Benjamin Pierce Cheney Donation, Frank M. and Mary T. B. Ferrin Fund, Meg Holmes Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. Mark R. Goldweitz, Allen and Elizabeth R. Mottur, Barbara and Joanne Herman, Clark and Jane Hinkley, Walter and Celia Gilbert, Mr. and Mrs. Gorham L. Cross, Mr. and Mrs. Miguel de Bragança, Honey Scheidt, Mr. and Mrs. G. Arnold Haynes and Margaret J. Faulkner
Accession number2002.609
On View
On view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceSaid to be from Matariya. Before 1982, private collection, Paris [see note]. By 1982, Galerie Sycomore, Paris; 1984, sold by Galerie Sycomore to Jack A. Josephson, New York. (Accession Date: December 18, 2002)

NOTE: Published as being in a Paris private collection by Dietrich Wildung, Sesostris und Amenemhat: Aegypten im Mittleren Reich (Fribourg, 1984), fig. 75.
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