Self-Portraits of Color

Ni-Ankh-Ptah
Self-portrait, kneeling in a boat
Egypt (c. 2350 BCE)
Detail from limestone relief depicting a mock river battle
Tomb of the vizier Ptah-Hotep, Saqqara

I scanned this in from Phaidon’s 500 Self-Portraits! It’s quite possibly the first self-portrait that we’ve got on record.

Ni Ankh Ptah sculpture ancient egypt

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