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Object Type: figure
Museum number: EA47550
Description: Feet and plinth of a stuccoed and painted figure; body of the figure lost.
Cultures/periods: First Intermediate
Excavator/field collector: Excavated by: Dr David George Hogarth (1906-1907)
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Asyut (town)
Materials: wood; stucco
Technique: painted
Dimensions: Height: 6 centimetres; Length: 34.70 centimetres; Width: 10.60 centimetres
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Curator's comments: Zitman suggests this is also from Tomb 35 due to similarities with EA47449 and EA47551.
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, 224)
Location: Not on display
Condition: fair (incomplete)
Associated names: Representation of: Ptah-Sokar-Osiris
Acquisition name: Donated by: Dr David George Hogarth
Acquisition date: 1907
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA47550
Registration number: 1907,0511.449

Free entry