Silouette female figurine
The flat silhouette statuette is a conventional image of a woman rendering the contours of the body in a stylised manner. The head is rendered as a rectangle to which hair made of grain might be attached; the nipples are marked by black dots; the abdomen below the waist is decorated by a pattern of coloured triangles, the pubic area is covered by black dots. The woman wears an amulet on her neck, a necklace on her breast, bracelets on her wrists and a band on her waist. The body is painted ochre, the amulette and the necklace are red, the triangle pattern is red, brown and black. Such statuettes had a magic significance and were placed into the tombs of predecessors in order to heal the female infertility.
WOODEN
Red, black, white, brown pigments
MIDDLE KINGDOM
inventory number 5568
STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM
Matthieu M.E., Koptskie i egipetskie magicheskie zhenskie statuetki. TOVE I,1939. p.174, tab.IV.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, p.62, cat.no.58.
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