Painted limestone dyad
The excavation records are unclear, but this headless figure of a man and woman was registered as coming from a Middle Kingdom cemetery near modern Dima, presumably referring to the site at Qasr el-Sagha, north of the Faiyum
lake. If so, it is presumably a funerary figure of a man and woman.
However its style seems later, and it may be a votive image of a god and goddess from the main site at Dima, a substantial town of the Ptolemaic Period
(305-30 BC). If of the earlier date, it is an unusual example from this
part of Egypt. Further evidence for its early date may come from the
pottery registered in the same year as Middle Kingdom and from Dima.
Present location
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND [30/002] DUBLIN
Inventory number
1901:735
Dating
Archaeological Site
QASR EL-SAGHA ?
Category
FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Material
Technique
PAINTED; CARVED
Height
10 cm
Width
9 cm
Depth
4 cm
Bibliography
- Margaret Murray, National Museum of Science and Art, General Guide III. Egyptian Antiquities, Dublin 1910, p. 5.
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