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Description: | Wooden funerary model of seated male with one arm missing and the other unattached. Black painted hair and eyes. First Intermediate-Early Middle Kingdom. Such figurines were placed in tombs and it is believed that the Egyptians intended them to work for them in the afterlife. Purchased by Wellcome at auction 1929. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 2181 B.C.-1650 B.C.
First Intermediate Period - Middle Kingdom, early
Middle Kingdom, early | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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