Male Figure Standing

2347-1793 BCE (Late Old Kingdom-Middle Kingdom) H with base: 15 7/8 in. (40.3 cm) Citation Source image

Statues such as these were placed inside the tomb, sometimes adjacent to the coffin, to provide an additional home for the "ka" of the deceased individual to reside in. This statue represents a man, who wears a short pleated kilt and a short wig made up of rows of rectangles....

Sculpture

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25264
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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] [as 12th Dynasty, Assiout]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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17
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