Female figurine

 

Female figurine

Pottery

Esna.

2ND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD.

Inventory (international) number 03/061/3063

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

A small female figurine made from terracotta. She wears a short wig, the arms are held straight at the sides of the body. There are tattoo markings, possibly indicating the use of the object as a fertility figure.

From the excavations of Professor J. Garstang in Egypt, following a contribution made by the Committee to help fund the work in Egypt.

Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley, "Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in the Liverpool Museum", 1995, 63; pl. 99.

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Fertility figurine

Fertility figurine

This terracotta piece was part of a category of figurines representing very primitive images of women. They are specifically characterised by the gesture of the hands which seem to support the breasts and by the enormous dotted pubis. It's probably an erotic ex-voto placed in temples or in tombs. This "fertility figurine" dates from the end of the 18th Dynasty or from the beginning of the Ramesside Period.

POTTERY

2ND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD > NEW kingdom

Inventory number E.2527

KMKG - MRAH

E. Warmenbol (Éd.), Ombres d'Égypte, le peuple de Pharaon (Exposition), Treignes 1999, 76 nº 42

Fr. Labrique, La magie, L'archéologue 44 (1999) 17

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ostracon

FIGURED OSTRACON

LIMESTONE

DEIR EL-MEDINAH ?

19TH DYNASTY /XX

PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM [04/030]

Inventory number 5268

Eggebrecht, A. (Hrsg.), Nofret - Die Schöne : Die Frau im Alten Ägypten; "Wahrheit" und Wirklichkeit, Hildesheim - Mainz 1985, Kat.-Nr. 157.

Monreal Agustí, L. (Hrsg.), Egipto milenario : Vida cotidiana en la época de los faraones, Barcelona 1998, Kat.-Nr. 23.

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