AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME STUCCO APIS BULL HEAD PROTOME

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Lot 87 | AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME STUCCO APIS BULL HEAD PROTOME
AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME STUCCO APIS BULL HEAD PROTOME

PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 323-30 B.C.

8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.) high





Provenance

Private collection, Germany, acquired prior to 1980.

Property from a European Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby's, New York, 14 June 2000, lot 220.

with Jean-David Cahn, Basel, 2001 (Tiere und Mischwesen II, Katalog 13, no. 90).

Antiquities, Christie's, London, 2 April 2014, lot 57.



Literature

W. Hornbostel, Aus Gräbern und Heiligtümern. Die Antikensammlung Walter Kropatschek, Mainz, 1980, p. 276 f., no. 158.
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