Model Type | |
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female offering bearer | |
Description | |
Isreal Museum Web site: Statuette of a female offering bearer carrying a box filled with flour and holding a duck H: 59 cm his figure wears a white dress held in place by a strap over the left shoulder. Her black wig is cut below the ears at the sides, left long at the back, and surrounded by a white ribbon tied at the back. Her skin is painted yellow, as was customary in representations of women in ancient Egypt, while the flour in her basket is painted white. She holds the duck, fashioned from a separate piece of wood, by the tail. Its wings have not survived. | |
Site | |
Unknown | |
Date | |
FIP-MK | |
Museum | |
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel | |
Accession number | |
94.35.32 | |
Material | |
wood | |
Dimensions | |
Height 59 cm | |
Museum Online Record Card | |
URL: http://www.imj.org.il/en/collections/198928 | |
Links to Images and Other Refs | |
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egyptian_Figurines.JPG | |
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/Samuel_and_Saidye_Bronfman_Archaeology_WingDSCN4968.JPG | |
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