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DOI article:Brandys, Henryk: Two Egyptian statuettes of the period of the Middle Kingdom in the National Museum in Warsaw
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3. Woman's torso, view of the back, Warsaw, Muzeum Narodowe
less smoothening of the surfaces. Both statuettes have wigs of the same kind, but the Queen
wears an uraeus and coils of her hair are marked by incisions. Similarly treated facial features
may be found in a statuętte in the Brooklyn Museum (Inv.: 51.224) representing a sitting
woman suckling a child. Unfortunately, it has been only inprecisely dated to the period of the
Middle Kingdom14. Its wig is similar to the one on our object, even if it differs from the latter
by the more differentiated elaboration of its surface.
Many affinities with our statuette and the one, mentioned above, in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art are offered by the well-preserved wooden statuette representing a standing woman
in a tripartite wig in the British Museum (Inv.: 2373), dated by Evers15 to the last years
14. Fiue Years of Collecting Egyplian Art 1951-1956, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1956, pl. 13 (Limestone, 0,116 m high). The
identification of this representation and the interpretation of its use is slill undcr discussion. Cf. H. Schafer, ,,Die
Kunst Aegyptens" in: H. Schafer — W. Andreae, Die Kunst des Allen Orients (Propylaen-Kunstgeschichte, II), Berlin,
1925, pp. 597, 598. ,
15. H.G. Evers, Slaat aus dem Stein, Miinchen, 1929, pl. 93 (wood, 0,274 m high without the base).
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less smoothening of the surfaces. Both statuettes have wigs of the same kind, but the Queen
wears an uraeus and coils of her hair are marked by incisions. Similarly treated facial features
may be found in a statuętte in the Brooklyn Museum (Inv.: 51.224) representing a sitting
woman suckling a child. Unfortunately, it has been only inprecisely dated to the period of the
Middle Kingdom14. Its wig is similar to the one on our object, even if it differs from the latter
by the more differentiated elaboration of its surface.
Many affinities with our statuette and the one, mentioned above, in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art are offered by the well-preserved wooden statuette representing a standing woman
in a tripartite wig in the British Museum (Inv.: 2373), dated by Evers15 to the last years
14. Fiue Years of Collecting Egyplian Art 1951-1956, Brooklyn, N.Y., 1956, pl. 13 (Limestone, 0,116 m high). The
identification of this representation and the interpretation of its use is slill undcr discussion. Cf. H. Schafer, ,,Die
Kunst Aegyptens" in: H. Schafer — W. Andreae, Die Kunst des Allen Orients (Propylaen-Kunstgeschichte, II), Berlin,
1925, pp. 597, 598. ,
15. H.G. Evers, Slaat aus dem Stein, Miinchen, 1929, pl. 93 (wood, 0,274 m high without the base).
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