An Egyptian Greywacke Bust of a Man, 26th Dynasty, reign of Psamtik I, circa 664-610 B.C.

from a striding figure, probably once holding a figure of Osiris before him, and wearing a wide wig falling to the top of the back pillar, his broad face with full lips deeply indented at the corners, and wide-set almond shaped eyes with long contoured eyebrows and cosmetic lines in relief, the column of inscription on the back pillar carefully erased in antiquity.

Charles Dikran Kelekian, New York, inv. no. T68, 1968 (Corpus of Late Period Egyptian Sculpture, The Brooklyn Museum, Kelekian T68)
Jack Josephson, New York acquired from the above on May 3rd, 1969 (Kelekian Archives, Onassis Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art)
acquired by the present owner from the above in July 2003

The Brooklyn Museum, inv. no. L80.16.1, on loan from 1980 to 1985, on view from 1981 to at least 1983
"Padihershef: The Egyptian Mummy," exhibition at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, December 4th, 1984, to January 20th 1985

Joyce Haynes, Padihershef: The Egyptian Mummy, exh. cat., Springfield, Massachusetts, 1984, no. 6, illus. on p. 38
Jaromir Malek, Diana Magee, and Elizabeth Miles, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. VIII, Oxford, 1999, p. 876, no. 801-763-675

Good and as shown and described. Note ancient damage to the nose and scratches on proper left cheek. There is a small ancient flaw or chip on the crown of the head.
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Cf. B. v. Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, 700 B.C.-A.D. 100, Brooklyn, 1960, pl. 35, no.38A, the figure of Pedy-Amun-Ra-Neb-Waset in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown proffering a figure of Osiris.