Altafrikanische art treasures in museums of the GDR - Germany / German Democratic Republic 1978 - 10 Pfennig

Old African Art Treasures in Museums of the GDR With pictures of Old African art shooters from GDR museums, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications of the German Democratic Republic publishes six multi-colored special postage stamps. Special cancellations from June 20 to August 19, 1978 Old-African art shooters in GDR museums The motifs of this special postage stamp issue reflect objects from the rich collections of the Egyptian Museum of the Karl Marx University Leipzig and the Egyptian Museum of the National Museums in Berlin in the exhibition "Africa in Antiquity - Art Treasures from Nubia and Sudan" organized by the Brooklyn Museum, NY, USA, with scientific support from the National Museums in Berlin, GDR, 1978/79. 10 Pfennig value: Woman's head, clay, 1st half of the 2nd millennium BC u. Z. - Egyptian Museum Leipzig The female head (height 5.4 cm, width 5.8 cm) was found in 1914 also in the cemetery N of Aniba in the tomb 133 of a girl by G. Steindorff. The face of the almost spherical, flattened down head is weak. Nose, mouth and chin are plastically formed, the nostrils are indicated by punctures, the small mouth by a horizontal notch. The eyes are represented by long lines, eyebrows and eyelids weakly indicated. Deeply dented holes reveal the hairdo, which seems to be a wig. The head in red-brown burned clay is broken and composed.