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figure
Object Type
figure
Museum number
EA45070
Description
Rectangular plinth and feet of a red painted wooden figure of a man called Sedekh.
Cultures/periods
Middle Kingdom
(?)
First Intermediate
(?)
Excavator/field collector
Excavated by:
Dr David George Hogarth
Findspot
Excavated/Findspot:
Asyut (town)
, Tomb 48
Materials
wood
Technique
painted
Dimensions
Height:
5.40 centimetres
Length:
22.80 centimetres
Width:
9.20 centimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Zitman 2010 / The necropolis of Assiut: a case study of local Egyptian funerary culture from the Old Kingdom to the end of the Middle Kingdom
(II, 231)
Location
Not on display
Condition
fair (incomplete and cracked)
Associated names
Named in inscription:
Sedekhiqer
Acquisition date
1907
Department
Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number
EA45070
Registration number
1907,0511.30