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Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons License
Standing Male Figure
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )
This figure has been carved in the round and painted. He has short hair, plain black. His arms are joined at the shoulders, his right hand is open, his left is clenched, with a hole. Hw has a white belt, tied at the front. There is a pin set into the front, above the belt. His left leg is broken at the knee, his right foot is made separately and is gone. There is a prong under his right heel, inset into the base.
Inscription
Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.
MacGregor (?) [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Geographies
Egypt (Place of Origin)
Measurements
H above base: 5 13/16 in. (14.7 cm)
Credit Line
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
22.28