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MM 11155 :: sculpture

Object description

Figurine, seated man. Shaved head, the nose the only marked facial feature. Red upper body, white kilt?

Mounted on a wooden base.

Inventory number

MM 11155

Serie nummer

10716

Object

sculpture

Object, Swedish

skulptur

Country - Findspot

Egypt : Africa

Country, Swedish - Findspot

Egypten

Place - Findspot

Edfu

Material

Clay, painted red and white; Clay; Pottery

Material, Swedish

Keramik; Lera; Lera, målad röd och vit

Acquisition

Purchased from the Major R.G. Gayer-Anderson collection 1934

Acquisition, Swedish

Från R. G. Gayer-Andersons samling.

Description

Figurine, seated man. Shaved head, the nose the only marked facial feature. Red upper body, white kilt?

Mounted on a wooden base.

Name - Acquired from

Gayer-Anderson, Robert Grenville

Description: Robert Grenville Gayer-Anderson, Major, after qualifying as a Doctor at Guy's Hospital, became an officer in the Royal Army, Medical Corps. He received his commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps in 1903. He was lent to the Egyptian Government in 1905 by the British Government and spent the rest of his carrier in service of Egypt, in both military and civil capacities, reaching the rank of "Lewa" (Major General) and having the title of Pasha conferred upon him. He collected Egyptian objects of great significance. They are preserved in Gayer-Anderson Pasha museum in Cairo. He is the author of "Legends of the Bait al-Kretliya" (Luzac, London) and Christeros, poems (Wilding, Shrewsbury). He died in Lavenham in 1945. (www.indianminiature.org, 2012-08-31)
Source - http: vocab.getty.edu, collections.smvk.se, digitaltmuseum.org, id.loc.gov
Source, Wikip. - is desc. by: en.wikipedia.org
Source, Viaf - same as: viaf.org, viaf.org
Source, Kulturnav - same as: kulturnav.org

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