Statuette / queen

Description

Ivory statuette of a royal woman wearing a gown secured by a knot under the right breast, a curled lappet wig and a vulture headdress with uraeus: Ancient Egyptian, 25th Dynasty, c.747-656 BC

Museum reference

A.1954.40

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Statuette / queen

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

25th Dynasty (Kushite), 3rd Intermediate Period, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Ivory

Collection place(s)

Egypt, Northern Africa

Exhibitions

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

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

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

References

Aldred, Cyril, Dynastic Egypt in the Royal Scottish Museum, pl. 21

Aldred, Cyril (1961) The Egyptians, p. 260, pl. 75

Aldred, Cyril in Leclant, L'Egypte du crepuscule, fig. 120

Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture, p. 13-14[12], pl. 11[27-8]

Woldering, Agypten, p. 207, pl. on 200

5,000 Years of Egyptian Art. London, 22 June to 12 August 1962, p. 20 [74], pl. 29

Ruffle, Heritage of the Pharaohs, fig. 128 [left]

Aldred, Cyril in Triennial Report 1971-73, p. 28

PM VIII 946

On display

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