Fragmentary Relief of a Pharaoh (possibly Augustus)
Place made:Egypt
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Roman period
Date: ca. 30 B.C.-A.D. 14
Medium: Sandstone
Dimensions:
height: 10 in. (25.4 cm)
width: 12 in. (30.5 cm)
Credit Line: Bequest of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 2005.1.38
Inscribed: One column of mostly illegible text, written left to right, behind the figure.
Cartouche, partly preserved, written left to right, in front of the figure:
[k]-y-s-r-s
[Ka]isaros
Additional information in curatorial file [S. Schellinger 2018]
Provenance: sold, Christie's, New York, June 14, 1993, lot 21, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by bequest to San Antonio Museum of Art, 2005
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