Wooden funerary figure
- Accession Number
- W676
- Current Location
- In storage
- Object Type
- Model, Unidentified funerary model, Unidentified figure
- Period
- Middle Kingdom
- Material
- Wood
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Height: 183mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
Licensing details
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- Description
-
A striding funerary figure with both arms missing. The paint is largely lost. The figure may have been male as there appears to be traces of a beard on its left cheek in black paint. Stylistically the figure is similar to other figures from Beni Hasan dating to the Middle Kingdom.
- Wellcome Number
- A65918
- Auction
- Sotheby, Wilkinson, & Hodge: 26 Jun–06 Jul 1922, Lot 618 | Sotheby & Co.: 12–13 Nov 1928, Lot 219
- Previous Owners
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936) | Charles James Tabor (1849–1928) | Rev. William MacGregor (1848–1937)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 08 Oct 2020