Statuary
E7010
From: Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | E7010 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Meroitic |
| Provenience | Egypt | Nubia | Karanog Cemetery |
| Locus | G |
| Date Made | 100 BCE-300 CE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Sandstone | Pigment |
| Description | Ba statue presented as a man with wings. The man wears a short pleated linen skirt tied at the waist, has curly hair which is encircled by a fillet. He holds a broken off staff in the left hand. He wears sandals. The feathers of the wings are incised with great detail and reach from the shoulders to the base. There is a hole in the top of the head for a disk. Red and white pigment is visible. |
| Height | 58.42 cm |
| Width | 16.51 cm |
| Depth | 43.18 cm |
| Credit Line | The Eckley B. Coxe Jr. Expedition to Nubia, Karanog, Aniba Cemetery; D. Randall-MacIver and C. L. Wooley, 1908 |
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