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Statuette of a woman
Egyptian
First Intermediate Period or Middle Kingdom, Dyn
2140–1991 B.C.
Medium/Technique
Wood
Dimensions
Height: 47.5 cm (18 11/16 in.)
Credit Line
Emily Esther Sears Fund
Accession Number04.1777
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ClassificationsModels
DescriptionThis wooden statuette portrays a nude young woman, wearing a black wig. Her bracelets and anklets are painted blue and red. She wears black sandals, and there are traces of blue paint on the neck, possiblyy the reamins of another piece of jewelry. The eyes are inserted. The base is inscribed and cracked lenghtwise. The figure also cracked.
ProvenanceFrom Asyut. 1903: excavated by Emile Gaston Chassinat and Charles Palanque for the Institut francais d'archeologie orientale, Cairo; 1904: purchased for the MFA by Albert M. Lythgoe.