A Basalt Bust of a Man, 26th Dynasty, probably period of Apries/Psamtik III, 589-525 B.C.

from a naophorous statue, wearing a long wrap-around kilt with tab drawn up on the chest, and rounded shoulder-length wig, the rectangular back-pillar with a single column of inscription in sunk relief starting with the hetep-di-neswt offering formula under the auspices of Osiris "foremost [of]...," followed by a partial place name; the proper right half of the body restored in painted plaster.

acquired in Egypt around 1900 by the current owner's maternal grandmother

For a related example from the time of Apries see E. Brunner -Traut and H. Brunner, Die Ägyptische Sammlung der Universität Tübingen, Mainz am Rhein, 1981, p. 43, no. 1479, pl. 125.