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| Keywords: Egyptian - Standing Man - Walters 22395.jpg Once part of a statue placed in a temple as a votive gift the sculpture shows an elderly man with firmly set facial features When complete the statue showed the owner offering a naos or shrine to his god Signs of age with hints of bittersweet emotion appear only in the private sculpture of the Late Period and Ptolemaic Period never in royal works This is in direct opposition to works of the Middle Kingdom where signs of age weariness and care appeared first in royal facial features ca 100 BC-AD 100 Ptolemaic-Roman carved gray-black basalt cm 17 5 11 8 7 accession number 22 395 8571 Henry Walters Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian statues in the Walters Art Museum Statues of Greco-Roman Egypt | ||||
