Mirror Handle
Object Number:
E10312
Current Location:
Egypt (Mummies) Gallery
Provenience:
Sudan
Nubia
Buhen
Locus:
H60
Period:
New Kingdom
Eighteenth Dynasty
Date Made:
1539-1292 BC
Early Date:
-1539
Late Date:
-1292
Section:
Egyptian
Materials:
Bronze
Iconography:
Nude Woman
Fruit
Headdress
Description:
Mirror with a handle in the shape of a nude woman. The woman carries a piece of fruit in her hands. There is a hole driled in the headdress of the figure for the attachment of the reflecting disc.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997)
Bibliography:
[Book] Silverman, David P. 1997. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. : Page/Fig./Plate: 228-29
[Book] Randall-MacIver, David, and C. Leonard Woolley. 1911. Buhen. : Page/Fig./Plate: plate 62
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