Statuary

E7010

From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E7010
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Meroitic
Provenience Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Locus G
Date Made 100 BCE-300 CE
Section Egyptian
Materials Sandstone | Pigment
Description

Ba statue presented as a man with wings. The man wears a short pleated linen skirt tied at the waist, has curly hair which is encircled by a fillet. He holds a broken off staff in the left hand. He wears sandals. The feathers of the wings are incised with great detail and reach from the shoulders to the base. There is a hole in the top of the head for a disk. Red and white pigment is visible.

Height 58.42 cm
Width 16.51 cm
Depth 43.18 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908

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