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Source Description
This head from a statuette of a woman has short hair cut off straight across the forehead. Here eyebrows and the whites of her eyes are hollowed out. The piece is broken irregularly at the neck, and is much split. The authenticity of this piece has been questioned.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
34080
label
Head of a Woman
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
34080
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Head of a Woman
description
This head from a statuette of a woman has short hair cut off straight across the forehead. Here eyebrows and the whites of her eyes are hollowed out. The piece is broken irregularly at the neck, and is much split. The authenticity of this piece has been questioned.
provenance
Abemayor, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as 18th Dynasty, Assiout, no. 7]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1931 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
1550-1069 BCE or modern (New Kingdom or modern)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
figurines
fragments
statuettes
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
med
wood
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
mediaId
9f8661fdc9c59caf