Fragment of limestone servant statue, figure of woman kneading bread; flesh painted yellow; hair and details of face in black; broken at hips, arms missing, piece missing from back of head, face battered.
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- ID
- MMA_1979.403
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- Department
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Giza (?) (provenance unknown)
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Legacy dimension: 19.5 cm
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- Credit Line
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1979
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- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston accession number
- MFAB_11.305
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- Object Ownership Information
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, MMA_1979.403; deaccessioned MFAB_11.305
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5 - Dynasty 6
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- Object owned by
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Notes
- Previously Museum of FIne Arts, Boston (MFAB_11.305), purchased in Cairo, 1911. Deaccessioned by the MFA; auctioned at Sotheby's, New York, in 1978. Purchased by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from Peter Sharrer, New Jersey, in 1979. Published in MMA Notable Acquisitions 1979-80.
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- Remarks
- formerly Denman Waldo Ross Collection
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- Problems/Questions
- MFA and MMA accession numbers verified
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- Type Object owned by
Name of this image
Description of the image duis mollis, est non commodo luctus, nisi erat porttitor ligula, eget lacinia odio sem nec elit. Sed posuere consectetur est at lobortis. Donec sed odio dui.
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