Statue

E7003

From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E7003
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Meroitic
Provenience Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Locus G
Date Made 100 BCE-300 CE
Section Egyptian
Materials Sandstone
Iconography Ba | Winged Female
Description

Female ba figure wearing a long skirt. She has well-defined breasts and holds something in her left hand. On her head there is a hole for the insertion of a solar disk. She has wings.

Height 59 cm
Width 16 cm
Depth 37.2 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908

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