Details
512 in. (13.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Private Collection, New York.
Property from a New York Private Collection; Antiquities, Sotheby’s, New York, 16 May 1980, lot 145.
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For the treatment of the beard see the stucco bust of a king, no. 41 in P.O. Harper, The Royal Hunter, Art of the Sasanian Empire. The large eyes, here with their pupils drilled for now-missing inlays, are characteristic for sculpture throughout the late antique world, from Egypt to Iran.

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