SculptureEgyptian3rd millennium BCE
Head of a Man
2494-2345 BCE
Dimensions
8.8 x 7.9 x 8.5 cm (3 7/16 x 3 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.)
Provenance
Miss Elizabeth Gaskell Norton, Boston, MA and Miss Margaret Norton, Cambridge, MA (by 1920), gift; to the Fogg Museum, 1920. Note: The Misses Norton were daughters of Charles Elliot Norton (1827-1908).
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