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Wooden statue of an official

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Title/s	Wooden statue of an official
Category	figure
Name	statue
Description	male figure, upper part. Representing a man wearing a short plaited wig.
Field Collection	Egypt
Dimensions	height 12.8 cm width 5.8 cm
Period	Sixth Dynasty Old Kingdom
Date	2345 B.C. — 2181 B.C.
Provenance	bequeathed: Shannon, C.H. and C.S.Ricketts 1937 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Darracott, J. (ed.) (1979) All for Art; the Ricketts and Shannon collection , Cambridge (Cambs.) : Cambridge University Press (1979) Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: ] [comments: no. 10] Garstang, J. Burial customs of ancient Egypt; as illustrated by tombs of the Middle Kingdom, being a report of excavations made in the necropolis of Beni Hasan during 1902-4 [page: ] [comments: fig. 109] (1995) [page: 26-7] [comments: fig. 9]
Material/s	wood
Accession Number	E.41.1937 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 53588; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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Wooden statue of an official