figure
- Description
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Egyptian terracotta figure of woman(?). Feet and base fragment. Other head and body fragments possibly come from same figure. Hand made and solid. Crudely made with bulging eyes and added lips. Red-brown organic Nile silt.
- Production date
- 630BC - 400BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 7.50
- Curator's comments
- Late Period style figurine with added eyes. Three fragments of a Late Period figure of the same style and possibly from the same figure were found near the north side of the Great Temenos by Hogarth in ‘6th century' BC levels (Cairo CG32802; CG32801; CG32803; Hogarth, Lorimer & Edgar 1905, 131-2, fig. 11). Although this was interpreted as female by Edgar (see Dafana parallel (GR 1906, 0301.4), the head is bald, as per other male figures. A number of similar hand- made pieces were found at Naukratis (Amsterdam, Allard Pierson Museum 7473; Brussels, Musées Royaux d’Art et d’Histoire A.1847; A.1848; Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 86.469; 86.468; Bristol, City Art Gallery & Museum H2800, H2256; Oxford, Ashmolean Museum AN1896-1908-E.4719). Some of these examples still possessed their original Egypt Exploration fund labels, stating 'Naukratis 580 BC’ suggesting that these were commonly found in late 6th century BC contexts. Similar pieces were found by Petrie at Memphis in late period contexts (Petrie Museum UC48478- 9; UC8928, UC48429, UC47823, UC47832; Petrie 1909a, pl. 43, no. 68, pl. 44 top right; Petrie 1909b, pl. 28, no. 70-71, pl.29, no. 85, see also pl. 32, no. 113 and pl. 34, nos 125-6, 131; Petrie 1910, see pl. 45, nos 178-9). Unprovenanced parallels are dated Late Period or Ptolemaic (Bayer- Niemeier 1988, pl. 97.7, no. 556, nos. 532-3; Török 1995, no.262).
Bayer Niemeier, E. 1988, Bildwerke der Sammlung Kaufmann/Liebieghaus Museum Alter Plastik Frankfurt am Main I. Griechisch- römische Terrakotten, Melsungen.
Török, L. 1995, Hellenistic and Roman Terracottas from Egypt, Roma.
Petrie, W.M.Fl. 1909a, Memphis I, London.
Petrie, W.M.Fl. 1909b, The Palace of Apries. Memphis II, London.
Petrie, W.M.Fl. MacKay, E. and Wainwright, G. 1910, Meydum and Memphis III, London.
- Location
- Not on display
- Department
- External
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: CG32802
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Miscellaneous number: SR5/1054