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Description: | Sandstone statue of a flute-player (auletes) playing a double-reed in three pieces. The head, which is detached from the neck, had a pigtail and the lower left part of the face missing and the upper section of the pipes. The legs are broken off below the knees with a fragment of the right leg below the knee remaining. Surface friable and chipped; body painted red, pipes yellow. Head fragment previously in museum, recorded as missing 1977. From the 'Royal Bath' at Meroe. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Meroitic Period; start=-591; end=350 | 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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