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FRAGMENT OF AN ARM FROM A LIVE SIZE STATUE
Egypt, Middle Kingdom
XIIth Dynasty, ca. 1991 – 1800 BC
Length: 35.6 cm – Width: 10.2 cm
Wood
A hand-carved wooden arm and grasping hand from a larger statue, with one end terminating in a tenon joint. Fine details of the fingers and the overall shape reveal this to be a naturalistic style, presumably based on a real model.
There are the remains of a light pigment still on the wood.
Provenance
Private collection Switzerland, acquired in Egypt in 1967
Publication(s)
Catalogue des Statues égyptiennes du Moyen Empire, Musée du Louvre, 1987
Exhibition(s)