A Greywacke Naophorous Bust of an Official
2011-A1
2nd half of the 26th Dynasty, c. 600-525 B.C.
Antiquities
Museum - 2nd Floor - Special Exhibitions (Dorrance Galleries) - Wall 4
Administrator of the Royal Palace at Hermopolis Magna, wearing a pleated kilt, broad rounded wig, and a naos-shaped pectoral decorated in raised relief with a seated figure of Neith holding the was-scepter, his youthful idealizing face with outlined lips indented at the corners, and finely contoured eyes, a single column of inscription in sunk relief on the rectangular back pillar translating, "Guest of the gods who are in Khemenu (Hermopolis Magna), Sole friend, Administrator of the Palace, Administrator..."
