Statuette / woman / child

Description

Statuette of wood, with traces of gesso and paint, of a foreign woman carrying a child on her back and wearing a long cloak: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Beni Hasan, tomb of Useri and Ary-hotep (181 LC), Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, c.1985-1773 BC

Museum reference

A.1911.260

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Statuette / woman / child

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

12th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Physical description

Wood; traces of gesso and paint

Collection place(s)

Beni Hasan, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Useri
Hilton Price Collection
Collector: Hilton Price, Frederick George, 1842 - 1909

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Between the Old and the New: Middle Kingdom Egypt (05 Oct 2015 - 24 Jan 2016)
  Metropolitan Museum of Art

• Senusret III: The conquering Pharoah (09 Oct 2014 - 26 Jan 2015)
  Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Garstang, J., Burial Customs (London: 1907), 139-141, figs. 138 and 218 for the content of the tomb.

Aldred, C. Middle Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt 2300-1590 B.C. (London: 1956), 42, no. 30 with ill.

Smith, W.S. Art and Architecture in Ancient Egypt (London: 1958), pl. 78a.

Bourriau, J. Pharaohs and Mortals: Egyptian Art in the Middle Kingdom (Cambridge: 1988), 108-9, no. 97 with ill.

Arnold, Dorothea, 'Foreign and Female' in Offerings to the Discerning Eye: An Egyptological Medley in Honor of Jack A Josephson, ed. Sue D'Auria (Leiden: 2010), 17-31.

Saretta, P (2015) Asiatics in Middle Kingdom Egypt, Perceptions and Reality. Bloomsbury

Comic-strip by Mohammed Nasser and Heba Abd el Gawad, ‘On her first short visit to Egypt since 1911’, 3 July 2020: https://twitter.com/nasser_junior/status/1279160590804680705?s=21

Egypt's Dispersed Heritage Project: https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/our-research/current-research/egypt-s-dispersed-heritage/

On display

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