This sculptor's model shows a royal bust in raised relief. The limestone backplate is very unusual; it is not rectangular but rather takes the shape of the nemes headdress. The latter is carved with many details: a headband, cloth with uraeus, and side and shoulder pieces. The rather puffy face and the fixed smile betray conventional Ptolemaic art. On the sides of the bust and on the back of the backplate are a series of lines in the form of squares.
R. Hostens -Deleu, Beeldhouwersmodellen in de Egyptische afdeling van de Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, BMRAH 49 (1979) 15
J.-Ch. Balty, e.a., Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel, Oudheid - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles, Antiquité - The Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Antiquity, Bruxelles 1988, 42
F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 168
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