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