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Model of a Woman Tending a FireFirst Intermediate Period - early Middle Kingdom, 2134-1991 BCE

On view:
Geffen Galleries, Life and Afterlife: Imagery of Early Egypt
Painted wood Egyptian sculpture of a seated figure holding crossed sticks, mounted on a flat rectangular base, with original polychrome pigment partially worn
Painted wood funerary figurine of a seated male scribe with blue-black wig, reddish-brown skin, holding a stylus, mounted on a flat gray-blue base with a circular depression, paint partially worn.
Title
Model of a Woman Tending a Fire
Place Made
Egypt
Date Made
First Intermediate Period - early Middle Kingdom, 2134-1991 BCE
Medium
Wood, gesso and pigments
Dimensions
7 1/4 × 4 × 6 in. (18.42 × 10.16 × 15.24 cm)
Credit Line
William Randolph Hearst Collection
Accession Number
51.15.11
Classification
Sculpture
Collecting Area
Egyptian Art