Basalt Head
date: label: Accession Date
content: 28 Aug 1992
label: Collection Date
content: 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Joseph Hirshhorn
label: Donor Name
content: Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
notes: label: Notes
content: BASALT HEAD; SAITE/ XXII-XXVI DYNASTY; 3/4 VIEW; NOSE BROKEN; HEADRESS; CHIN CHIPPED. PROVENIENCE UNDOCUMENTED. IDENTIFICATION PROVIDED BY HMSG.
label: Notes
content: Dark gray-green metamorphic schist fragment of a head with plain double wig which partly covers ears, but does not have customary divider between the wig's upper and lower portions. Shallow parting above middle of forehead. Natural eyebrows; upper eyelid rim outlined; eyballs with vertical ridge descending towards cheek; faint philtrum; corners of mouth not drilled. Youthful, idealizing face. Head split off in rear at right ear, nose missing, chin damaged, broken off at base of neck.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 May 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Not Given, Egypt (not certain), Africa (not certain)
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian, Late Period
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 370312
label: USNM Number
content: A553060-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Sculpture
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 21 cm
label: Width - Object
content: 17 cm