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Statuette of an Official Wearing a Long Kilt

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Statuette of an official with base and inscribed back pillar. The man wears a long kilt with high waist; his two hands lie flat on the kilt. The proper left side of his head appears damaged and recarved.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics From Aswan. Field Marshal Baron Francis Wallace Grenfell (by 1917) Surrey England sold: [Sotheby London 12-14 November 1917]. Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Sachs Cambridge MA (by 1919) bequest; to Fogg Art Museum 1965. Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Meta and Paul J. Sachs
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Title: Statuette of an Official Wearing a Long Kilt
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Statuette of an official with base and inscribed back pillar.
The man wears a long kilt with high waist; his two hands lie flat on the kilt.
The proper left side of his head appears damaged and recarved.

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