Upper part of a female figure

Upper part of a female figure

Inventory number: 1911:392

Upper part of a female figurine in archaic Greek style, with garment drawn over the hair, and pendant worn below a collar at the neck, and right hand held to the breast, from the city of Naukratis in the Western Delta. The city was a unique Greek colony installed with the permission of the Egyptian kings in the 26th Dynasty, to channel the trade between the Nile valley and the Aegean.

NAUKRATIS

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