Standing Man

ca. 2250-2200 BCE (Late Old Kingdom)

5.8 cm 28.5 cm 6.5 cm

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This wooden and probably originally painted statuette depicts a standing man with the left leg in advance. Wood was a popular material for Old Kingdom private sculpture. This statuette would have been placed in the "serdab," or statue chamber, of the owner's tomb.

Sculpture

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Said Bey Khashaba, Cairo Museum [date of acquisition unknown], by excavation; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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