This statuette is carved in the round and painted. The man's hair is black and carved in rows of rectangles. They eyes are to be inlaid and the nipples are inlaid. The man's arms are joined at the shoulders, and both are gone. There are pins for joining the legs at th e bottom of the skirt, and both legs are gone. The back is carelessly worked.
Provenance
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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as 12th Dynasty, Assiout]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.