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Limestone practice piece
Sculptors trial piece, human head. Such objects can be divided into student practice pieces, master sculptor's trial pieces and models. This object is likely to have been a practice piece. On other examples the student repeats the exercise. Here there would have been space for three other heads (as is normal) but for whatever reason the relief was abandoned.
Depth: 5.2 cm
Length: 23.2 cm
Width: 13.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1943) by Gayer-Anderson, R. G. (Major)
Eighteenth Dynasty
New Kingdom
Circa
-1352
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Circa
-1336
Accession number: E.GA.4508.1943
Primary reference Number: 58959
Oldadmincategory: SS
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Limestone practice piece" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/58959 Accessed: 2024-12-23 12:59:10
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