Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides

c. 1391–1353 BCE · Sculpture

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Kde je teď „Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides“? Clevelandské muzeum umění, 107 Egyptian, Cleveland. Ano, právě vystaveno. Ověřeno 9. listopadu 2026.

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Cleveland, Spojené státy americké

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Four heads occupy one face of Trial Piece Worked on Both Sides, an Egyptian limestone fragment of about 1391–1353 BCE at the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Above are an Asiatic man with a pointed beard and a Nubian wearing a rounded headdress and hoop earring. Below appear an Egyptian king and a priest identified by his shaved head. The reverse contains less accomplished exercises, including basket signs and a hand. Other motifs include an unfinished Bes head, an ear and a princess with a short wig and thick sidelock. On view in gallery 107 Egyptian.

Slovy muzea

This carved flake of limestone provides a fascinating glimpse of the ancient artist at work. One side, by far the better, features four studies of heads. At the upper left is an Asiatic. He has a low forehead, a prominent nose, and a long, pointed beard. To his right is a Nubian wearing the short, round headdress and large loop earring that the Egyptians usually identified with this ethnic group. The bottom row presents images from within Egypt. At the left is a stock image of a king. To his right is another Egyptian, whose clean-shaven head immediately identifies him as a priest. The rather routine, basic subjects of the other side show a far lower level of accomplishment. The sole details of any skill are the incomplete head of the god Bes at the bottom center and the human ear at the left edge.

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The simple neb-signs (baskets) are poorly executed, and the drawing of the hand is embarrassingly bad. At the lower right is a thickly banded human eye. Above that is the fair head of a princess wearing a short wig, wide headband, and thick sidelock. At the upper left are the beginnings (or the remains) of the bewigged head of a courtier, the face mostly obliterated.

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