Mirror Handle

E10312

From: Sudan | Nubia | Buhen

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

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Object Number E10312
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sudan | Nubia | Buhen
Locus H60
Period New Kingdom | Eighteenth Dynasty
Date Made 1539-1292 BCE
Section Egyptian
Materials Bronze
Iconography Nude Woman | Fruit | Headdress
Description

Mirror with a handle in the shape of a nude woman. The woman carries a piece of fruit in her hands. There is a hole drilled in the headdress of the figure for the attachment of the reflecting disc.

Height 20.32 cm
Width 11.43 cm
Credit Line The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Buhen; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1910

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