Male Wooden Figure

ca. 2050 BCE (First Intermediate Period) H with base: 10 3/8 in. (26.4 cm) Citation Source image

This tomb figure was made from several pieces of wood. Parts of the statue were covered by a plaster layer made of gypsum (calcium sulfate) before it was painted.

Sculpture

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29801
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sculpture
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stage
normalized
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provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [said to be from Asyut]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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20
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Source image fields (5)
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