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Date : approx. between the IInd and the Ist century B.C.
Material : Diorite, Gabbro
Acquisition : Collection of Nina and Gordon Bunshaft (1994)
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Ancient Egypt
Sculpture
Area related
Egypte
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This statue wears an older costume especially popular in the Prolemaic and early Roman period. The sleeved tunic over which a long fringed skirt is wrapped, which its front edge visible between the legs of the figure, topped with a fringed shawl. The shawl covers the left arm and passes under the right, ending where it is gathered into the proper left fist.
Statues of this type seem to have stodd often in the front of temple pylons. There is somme reason to believe the the costume has a significance connected with the hope for deification.
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