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Sunken Relief Fragment
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Irregularly shaped fragment with figure in profile in sunken relief, wearing nemes headdress, standing, facing a thickly incised ankh at right.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Unknown formerly of the Kevorkian Collection.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of The Hagop Kevorkian Foundation in memory of Hagop Kevorkian
Title: Sunken Relief Fragment
Description:
Irregularly shaped fragment with figure in profile in sunken relief, wearing nemes headdress, standing, facing a thickly incised ankh at right.
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