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Description: | Terracotta figurine of Nile silt clay, depicting a female with arms raised in gesture of prayer; formed in a bipartite mould, the halves well joined, well modelled, painted white with traces of pink, black hair and eyes. Left lower leg, much of centre lower body, and crown of head missing. Single hole surviving near crown of head indicates attachment of pins. Restored from fragments. From a group found in the week of March 18-24 1888, during excavations directed by Petrie at Hawara, identified on the basis of the hairnets and large number of spindles in the group as from the burial of a girl or young woman. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Late Roman Period; start=250; end=395 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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