Figurine of a sleeping woman
Statues of naked women, stretched out on a bed, are collectively known as "concubines" of the dead. They appear in great number from the New Kingdom onwards. Their specific role is not very clear: could it be that the figurines were destined to ensure the sexual activity of the deceased in the Afterlife, and the procreation which results from it? The Brussels example represents a naked woman, wearing an imposing black wig which is surmounted by a ...perfume cone. Her body carries traces of many different colours. The bed, very simple, is provided with a geometric decoration of which the colours have practically disappeared.
Statues of naked women, stretched out on a bed, are collectively known as "concubines" of the dead. They appear in great number from the New Kingdom onwards. Their specific role is not very clear: could it be that the figurines were destined to ensure the sexual activity of the deceased in the Afterlife, and the procreation which results from it? The Brussels example represents a naked woman, wearing an imposing black wig which is surmounted by a ...perfume cone. Her body carries traces of many different colours. The bed, very simple, is provided with a geometric decoration of which the colours have practically disappeared.
http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=407
GOVERNORATE OF ASIUT: RIFA
NEW KINGDOM: 18TH DYNASTY
M.-P. Vanlathem, Oudegyptische lijkkisten en mummies - Cercueils et momies de l'Égypte ancienne, Bruxelles 1983, 48-49
J.-Ch. Balty, e.a., Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel, Oudheid - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles, Antiquité - The Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Antiquity, Bruxelles 1988, 30-31
F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 109
KMKG - MRAH
GOVERNORATE OF ASIUT: RIFA
NEW KINGDOM: 18TH DYNASTY
M.-P. Vanlathem, Oudegyptische lijkkisten en mummies - Cercueils et momies de l'Égypte ancienne, Bruxelles 1983, 48-49
J.-Ch. Balty, e.a., Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis, Brussel, Oudheid - Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Bruxelles, Antiquité - The Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels, Antiquity, Bruxelles 1988, 30-31
F. Lefebvre et B. Van Rinsveld, L'Égypte. Des Pharaons aux Coptes, Bruxelles 1990, 109
KMKG - MRAH
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