Group of fighters

Group of fighters

This group statue in limestone, which was purchased in the art trade in 1938, represents two fighters on a large rounded socle. The bodies of the two figures are leaning towards the ground so that their shoulders are touching. The piece resembles the figurines which date from 1st Intermediate Period and from the Middle Kingdom.

limestone

MIDDLE KINGDOM

Inventory number E.7347

KMKG - MRAH

B. Hornemann, Types of Ancient Egyptian Statuary, Munksgaard 1966, IV 1138

W. Decker et M. Herb, Bildatlas zum Sport im Alten Ägypten, Leyde 1994, I 558-559 L. 33

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