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Description: | Swimming woman funerary model. Right arm broken. Such figures are often represented holding a circular platter or a bowl for ointment. They evoke the goddess Nut as she brought forth the sun-god Re from the primaeval waters at the dawn of creation. This example may be a fake as the head is set strangely. Purchased by Wellcome at auction in 1925. See Freed, R. E. In 'Egypt's Golden Age. The Art of Living In The New Kingdom' 1982. The Museum of Fine Arts Boston. 205-207. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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