Limestone Fluted Beard

Limestone Fluted Beard

Description:

End of a beard of a large-scale limestone statue, probably of a male votary or priest; the beard is worked in alternating broad and narrow flutings ending in spirals.


Dimensions: Height: 12 centimetres max


Object Type: statue


Techniques: carved

Period:

Archaic II

Date:

600 - 540 BC

Collection:

British Museum

Provenance:

Achna (? unlikely)

Accession Number:

2009,5010.5