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EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE ANTHROPOID SARCOPHAGUS LID

The features boldly carved in high relief and wearing a tripartite wig with long lappets.

Stone sarcaphagi are rarely offered for sale. This is an especially fine example.

Ex American private collection dispersed at Sotheby’s, New York, December 1982; private collection, Santiago, Chile.

Early Ptolemaic, ca. 305-200 BC

H. 72 in. (182.9 cm.)

Art of the Ancient World, 2006, no. 172
EBM01
SOLD

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