| 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 |
Current & Past Exhibitions
Bibliography
| Wegner, Josef W., and Jennifer H. Wegner. The Sphinx That Traveled To Philadelphia. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015. Page/Fig./Plate: 239 Page/Fig./Plate: 17/1.27A |
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| Derriks, Claire. Les Miroirs Cariatides Egyptiens en Bronze: Typologie, Chronologie et Symbolique. Mainz: Verlag Philipp von Zabern, 2001. See: p. 17 ft. 8 and 11; p. 18; p. 21; p. 18, 21, 26, 29, 30, 34, 37, 39, 41, 46-7, 59, 74, 182-3; fig. 2 |
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| Derriks, Claire, and Hedvig Gyory. "Les Miroirs Cariatides: Une Forme Aboutie dans l'Histoire de la Statuaire Féminine en Bronze." Bulletin du Musée Hongrois des Beaux-Arts, Supplement 1 . (2001): 49-56. See: p. 49-50 ft. 8. |
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| Silverman, David P. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Cornell University Press, 1997. Page/Fig./Plate: 228-29 |
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| Randall-MacIver, David, and Charles L. Woolley. The Eckley B. Coxe Junior Expedition to Nubia: Vol. VIII, Buhen (plates). Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1911. See: plate 62 |
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