ANCIENT EGYPT | Antique pharaonic head, granite (collected pre 1960)

Egypt, pharaonic head made of granite - probably the head of a full-body figure.  Size (without the marble base) 2 x 3 x 3 inches. Weight (with the marble base) ca. 660  grams.

Fine portrait, probably late period, around 500 BC. With the crown of Lower Egypt and uraeus snake (chipped). With marble plinth from the 1960s. Background: The red crown of the north is the crown of Lower Egypt in the form of a cap. It rises steeply at the back. At the front it also rises upwards with a curled tip. The curled tip is reminiscent of a spiral. Perhaps the spiral originally represented a coiled snake. It refers to the dynamics of further development and the dynamics of becoming and passing away. The red crown of the north symbolises the snake and land goddess of Lower Egypt, Uto (also Buto, Wadjet).

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Provenance: collected ca. 1900, private Collection since 1960, collection of the seller since 1985