Arm of a wooden figure
- Accession Number
- EC378/11
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Model, Unidentified funerary model, Unidentified figure, Arm from an unknown funerary figure
- Periods
- Middle Kingdom to Second Intermediate Period
- Material
- Wood
- Provenance
- Egypt, Gebelein
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Measurements
- 138mm long
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- Description
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Arm from model of figure, Second Intermediate Period to Middle Kingdom. Little surviving finish, knot-hole in forearm patched with gesso, wood splitting in places, gouge in elbow, flexed at elbow, lower end prepared for scarf-jointed hand. 138mm long.
- Wellcome Number
- 65928 (loose slip in museum found separate from object. Presumed to belong to some of these arms)
- Auction Details
- 219
- Previous Owners
- Robert de Rustafjaell (1859–1943) | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
