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Object Number:E975
Current Location: Egypt (Mummies Gallery)
Currently On Display
Culture:Graeco-Roman
Ptolemaic (uncertain)
Provenience: Egypt
Coptos
Locus: Min Temple precinct
Period: Graeco-Roman Period
Ptolemaic (uncertain)
Post-Ptolemaic (uncertain)
Date Made: 50 BCE-25 CE
Early Date: -50
Late Date: 25
Section:Egyptian
Materials:Sandstone
Iconography:Man
Priest
Height: 147.32 cm
Width: 38.1 cm
Depth: 29.21 cm
Credit Line:Petrie Exploration; subscription of Mr & Mrs. Charles H. Cramp, 1894
Other Number:ES 975 - Original Number

Description

Standing statue of an anonymous offical who wears a short sleeved shirt, a wrap-around kilt and a fringed shawl. The official also wears a diadem of rosette shaped foral design. The back pillar rises to the neck. The sculpture is broken off at the ankles and the statue base is missing.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Upper Egyptian Gallery (1983 - 1991) View Objects in Exhibition
Upper Egyptian Gallery (1996 - 2006) View Objects in Exhibition
Upper Egyptian Gallery (1991 - 1996) View Objects in Exhibition
Upper Egyptian Gallery (2006) View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Thomas, Nancy. The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt.. Los Angeles County Museum of Art and American Research Center in Egypt. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 222/112View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] 1960. Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period 700 B.C to A.D 100.. New York. Brooklyn Museum. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 157-58View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Ranke, Hermann. 1950. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 15. no. 2-3. pg. 21-109 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 60View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Petrie, William M. 1896. Koptos.. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 22View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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