Head from a statue of a sphinx | Yale University Art Gallery

ca. 378–341 B.C.

Not on view

Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 11 1/4 × 13 9/16 × 24 1/2 in. (28.6 × 34.5 × 62.2 cm)
6 1/8 H. of face × 6 3/4 in. D. of break at neck: (15.6 × 17.2 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Olsen Acc. by G.B. 5/22/57
Accession Number: 1957.7.10
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Late Period (ca. 664–332 B.C.), Dynasties 30
Classification: Sculpture
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Provenance

Fred H. Olsen (1891–1986), and Florence Quittenton Olsen, Guilford, Conn.; gift in 1957 to Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Gerry D. Scott, III, Ancient Egyptian Art at Yale, 1st (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1986), 164, no. 93, ill.

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