<em>Fragmentary Figurine of a Woman</em>, ca. 2008–1352 B.C.E. Clay, 4 3/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 in. (10.7 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.527. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.07.447.527_NegC_print_bw.jpg)

Fragmentary Figurine of a Woman, ca. 2008–1352 B.C.E. Clay, 4 3/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 in. (10.7 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.527. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.07.447.527_NegC_print_bw.jpg)

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Fragmentary Figurine of a Woman

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Clay

Possible Place Collected: Edfu, Egypt

DATES ca. 2008–1352 B.C.E.

PERIOD Middle Kingdom to early New Kingdom

DIMENSIONS 4 3/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 in. (10.7 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 07.447.527

CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Fragmentary terracotta figurine of a nude woman, slightly steatopygous, with head and right shoulder and arm missing. Crudely shaped, with slender body, wide shoulders, small globular breasts, with a strand of hair between them, straight arms, separated from body, hands laid beside thighs, unshaped feet. Fingers, wrists, and a girdle above gluteal prominence, with fringes hanging down over buttocks, are indicated by deep scratches. Two holes in back at waist level. Pubic region indicated by a lump of clay; another lump at wrist, perhaps to mark the thumb. Legs separated by shallow scratch in front, by a deep cleaving line in back. Drab pottery, partly black because of insufficient baking. Condition: Head, right shoulder and arm missing.

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Fragmentary Figurine of a Woman, ca. 2008–1352 B.C.E. Clay, 4 3/16 × 1 7/16 × 1 in. (10.7 × 3.6 × 2.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 07.447.527. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.07.447.527_NegC_print_bw.jpg)

IMAGE overall, CUR.07.447.527_NegC_print_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2013

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