Nude Male Bust

2119-1793 BCE (Middle Kingdom) H: 2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm) Citation Source image

The small fragment was part of a statuette made of hard, high quality wood. The arms and the lower part of the body are now lost. It is likely that the artist reused material left from another, official commission, to piece together this figure.The figure is carved in the roun...

Sculpture

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31541
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sculpture
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as XII Dynasty. Assiout]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1930, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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en
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