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Guardian Figure – Middle Kingdom – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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This beautifully crafted figure is constructed from 16 separate pieces of wood (14 of which are extant) attached with dowels, mortise and tenons, adhesive, and plaster. Starting at the top, the sections are as follows: crown; head, torso and right leg; left leg; wedge between left leg and body; right arm; left arm; left forearm; right forefoot; left forefoot; wedge between fore and back left foot; front kilt section; back kilt section; beard (now missing); crook in left hand; scepter? (now missing) in right hand; and base
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Lion Cub – Early Dynastic Period – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Purchased in Luxor by Reverend Randolph Berens, ca. 1894. Later in Bruce collection, sold at Sotheby’s, Jan. 18, 1951, no. 286. Purchased by Albert Gallatin at a private sale at Spinks, London, 1951. Exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum, December 1959 – February 1960, and published in the exhibition’s catalog, 1961
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Mastaba Tomb of Perneb – Old Kingdom – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Location of Perneb’s Tomb For millennia, the vast cemetery of Saqqara (about twenty-five miles south of Cairo) was the burial ground for Memphis, ancient Egypt’s capital. In an especially crowded section, just north of the enclosure around King Djoser’s Step Pyramid at Saqqara (built during Dynasty 3, ca
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