Reproduction
figurines
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
Ebony statuette of woman with monkey with tazze vase on head. Both forearms [formerly] missing: monkey broken off stand. Found at Thebes about 1896, when bought by Petrie from Ali Arabi in Cairo. Figure restored by Martin Burgess.
Thebes
Bought in Egypt from Ali Arabi.
[nb-NO]Documentation[nb-NO]
- Marshall, Amandine, Être un enfant en Égypte ancienne
- Page, Anthea, Egyptian sculpture: archaic to Saite, from the Petrie Collection
- Montserrat, Dominic, Ancient Egypt: Digging for Dreams, p.15
- Marshall, Amandine, Childhood in Ancient Egypt, 75, Fig. 59a, b
- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Seventy Years In Archaeology, p.167
Late Dynasty 18
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]
diameter: 8.7 cms
width: 56.5 mm
height: 175 mm
length: 87 mm
width: 39 mm
height: 15.5 mm
weight: 139.566 gms
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]
LDUCE-UC14210
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
