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Lot Essay
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I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 32, no. R-099.
Similar figures of wood, ivory, faience and clay, are typically found in burials dating to the Middle Kingdom. They were traditionally identified as representing companions of the dead or 'concubines,' but are now understood to represent a more general idea of female fertility, potent powers which could charge the deceased with new life. For an example of the same type, cf. S. Schoske and D. Wildung, Entdeckungen, Ägyptische Kunst in Süddeutschland, Mainz am Rhein, 1985, p. 42, no. 28.
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p. 32, no. R-099.
Similar figures of wood, ivory, faience and clay, are typically found in burials dating to the Middle Kingdom. They were traditionally identified as representing companions of the dead or 'concubines,' but are now understood to represent a more general idea of female fertility, potent powers which could charge the deceased with new life. For an example of the same type, cf. S. Schoske and D. Wildung, Entdeckungen, Ägyptische Kunst in Süddeutschland, Mainz am Rhein, 1985, p. 42, no. 28.