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Statuette fragment

Nubian
Findspot: Nubia (Sudan), Gebel Barkal, D 500

Medium/Technique Limestone
Dimensions Other: 6 x 4.5 x 5.8 cm (2 3/8 x 1 3/4 x 2 5/16 in.)
Credit Line Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession Number16-4-253
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsSculpture

DescriptionFinely shaped and incised upper part of statuetteof Thoth as baboon
ProvenanceFrom Nubia (Sudan) Gebel Barkal, D500. 1916: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA in the division of finds by the government of Sudan.