COLLECTION of EGYPTIAN ART

Title/Description

Male figure from a model group

Material

wood, ground layer, paint; fragmentary and heavily worn; missing arms and dowels; dowel hole underside of kilt for attachment to seat

Dimensions

H: 13,6 cm W: 4.7 cm (at the lowest part of the figure) D: 3.5 cm (at the lowest part of the figure)

Iconography

Posture: sitting; left shoulder in a slightly higher position
Body: painted brick red
Wig/Hair: short, black wig
Face: black painted outlines of the eyes and the eyebrows
Dress: knee-length white skirt

Function

Funerary furniture/Part of the private burial equipment (Oarsman from a crew of a model boat)

Date

First Intermediate Period or Middle Kingdom

Origin

Unknown

Provenance

Unknown (Donated to the Museum of Fine Arts before (or in) 1949)

Bibliography

Parallels

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, 84.160-E (see below)
See also an online gallery:

Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 4798 (Meir) (M. G. A. Reisner, Models of Ships and Boats (CGC Nos 4798-4976 et 5034-5200), Cairo 1913., pl. I)
Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 31347
London, Petrie Museum, UC6649 (Lahun; Dynasty 12)
Myers Collection at Eton College, ECM 1550 (E. Georganteli et al., Sacred and Profane: Treasures of Ancient Egypt from the Myers Collection, Eton College and University of Birmingham, London 2010, 56-57)
Torino, Museo Egizio, S. 14813/77 RCGE 34032
St. Petersburg, Hermitage, 3581 and 3583
Bruxelles, Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, E.7516

Inventory Number

51.2201