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Wooden statue of an official
Male figure, upper part. Representing a man wearing a short plaited wig.
The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937
Height: 12.8 cm
Width: 5.8 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1937) by Shannon, Charles Haslewood
Sixth Dynasty
Old Kingdom
-2345
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-2181
Accession number: E.41.1937
Primary reference Number: 53588
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Antiquities
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Wooden statue of an official" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/53588 Accessed: 2023-03-22 01:14:35
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Accession Number: E.40.1937
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