Tomb owner statue
- Accession Number
- W474
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Types
- Fakes and replicas, Fakes | Sculpture, Statue | Model, Unidentified funerary model, Unidentified figure
- Material
- Wood
- Measurements
- Height: 483mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
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Licensing details
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- Description
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If genuine, this figure is likely of a statue of a tomb figure, although quite large at 470mm high. The facial features are very similar to figures from Asyut, but the carving of the kilt has led to the authenticity of this item being questioned.
- Wellcome Number
- A10892
- Previous Owner
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 23 Nov 2020
