AN IMPORTANT EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF A LADY
MIDDLE KINGDOM, EARLY 12TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1981-1802 B.C.
AN IMPORTANT EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF A LADY MIDDLE KINGDOM, EARLY 12TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1981-1802 B.C. Superbly sculpted, depicted standing with her feet together, the separately-made arms at her side and pinned in place with wood dowels, her long delicate fingers with white-painted nails, wearing a tightly-fitted sheath dress, revealing the form of her body beneath, with straps covering her breasts, ornamented with elaborate bracelets and anklets, her triangular face with inlaid eyes of white and black stone, presumably alabaster and obsidian, framed in copper, with a slender nose, a slightly-smiling mouth and a pointed chin, with a voluminous, striated, tripartite wig, painted black, on a deep integral plinth pinned in place into the rectangular base, the base painted red over white, with a black-painted hieroglyphic inscription, the Hetep-di nesu formula, partially preserved, reading "An invocation of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, for the Ka of ...hetep, justified" 10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high
AN IMPORTANT EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF A LADY
MIDDLE KINGDOM, EARLY 12TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1981-1802 B.C.
AN IMPORTANT EGYPTIAN WOOD FIGURE OF A LADY MIDDLE KINGDOM, EARLY 12TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1981-1802 B.C. Superbly sculpted, depicted standing with her feet together, the separately-made arms at her side and pinned in place with wood dowels, her long delicate fingers with white-painted nails, wearing a tightly-fitted sheath dress, revealing the form of her body beneath, with straps covering her breasts, ornamented with elaborate bracelets and anklets, her triangular face with inlaid eyes of white and black stone, presumably alabaster and obsidian, framed in copper, with a slender nose, a slightly-smiling mouth and a pointed chin, with a voluminous, striated, tripartite wig, painted black, on a deep integral plinth pinned in place into the rectangular base, the base painted red over white, with a black-painted hieroglyphic inscription, the Hetep-di nesu formula, partially preserved, reading "An invocation of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, for the Ka of ...hetep, justified" 10 ¾ in. (27.3 cm.) high
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