Relief Fragment with a Squatting Male Figure and Two Female Figures

2119-1976 BCE (Middle Kingdom)

17.2 cm 10.8 cm

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This sunk relief fragment depicts a male figure squatting to the left holdinga rope of rigging to the ground. Another rope runs diagonally behind his head to a mast or sail. Two women wearing narrow garments stand at the left. The piece is of unusually poor workmanship.

Sculpture

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24091
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sculpture
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normalized
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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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en
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2
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