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Description: | Cosmetic container in the form of a finely carved boxwood statuette of a naked servant girl walking and carrying a large jar on her left hip. The statuette stands on a rectangular wooden pedestal. Her head is shaved except for one lock of hair painted on the right side of the head. The right ear is missing and there is a small circular hole on both sides of the head. There is an ivory mushroom-shaped stud in the left ear lobe. The face is finely carved and painted using black and white paint. There is a necklace, incised and painted, tied at the back of the neck with a pendant in the shape of the god Bes. A girdle is painted in gold around the waist; some of the paint has worn away. The girl is carrying a large jar with both hands and balanced on her left hip. The lid of the jar pivots open; it has a small ivory stud on the lid and another on the side of the jar. The jar would have been used to store cosmetics. Description Source: Birch, S. 1880. Catalogue of the Collection of Egyptian Antiquities at Alnwick Castle, London: R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor, p. 98 | Subjects: | cosmetica statuette god woman sculpture in the round costume statuette | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Bes, Dwarf-God | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=32... | Go to resource |
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