Group Statuette
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
In the Thirteenth Dynasty, statues of "middleclass" Egyptians such as minor bureaucrats, servants, and artists frequently showed their subjects in family groups rather than individually. This badly damaged family statuette was made for a humble man (second from left) and his wife (second from right).
MEDIUM
Granite
DATES
ca. 1675–after 1630 B.C.E.
DYNASTY
late Dynasty 13
PERIOD
Middle Kingdom to Second Intermediate Period
DIMENSIONS
7 3/8 x 5 5/16 x 3 7/16 in. (18.8 x 13.5 x 8.8 cm)
(show scale)
INSCRIPTIONS
Style of inscription shows considerable hieratic influence.
ACCESSION NUMBER
16.580.148
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father Charles Edwin Wilbour
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Black granite group-statuette of s’nb-nb-(I’) and three members of his family. Figures stand in row with hands at sides, feet together. Plinth, which extends to necks only of figures, inscribed with four lightly incised columns of names, now badly worn.
Condition: Bad. All heads missing. Inscription. Badly rubbed. Pedestal broken at corners. Numerous chips.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Group Statuette, ca. 1675–after 1630 B.C.E. Granite, 7 3/8 x 5 5/16 x 3 7/16 in. (18.8 x 13.5 x 8.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.580.148. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.580.148_erg2.jpg)
IMAGE
overall,
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