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Statuette of Servant Girl-1991.107_print
c. 1323-1186 BC
Egypt, New Kingdom, late Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC) to Dynasty 19
(1295-1186 BC)
Terracotta, originally painted
Overall: 38.4 x 9.2 cm (15 1/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1991.107
LOCATION
107 Egyptian
Above is the Statuette of a Serving Girl. It is a Terracotta statue of a young servant girl holding a pot in her left hand, her right hand is on her hip. She is standing in the nude with her hair in a side ponytail. She has slit eyes with exaggerated hips and legs that form a triangle. The use of line allows the viewer to move its eye from the top of the statuette to the pot, to the curve of the leg, down to its feet back up to the hand on its right hip and back to the statuettes face. Overall the statuette is an hourglass figurine. The statuette is mainly flat however the navel, breast, pot and face add texture to the figure. The Statuette belongs to a select group of hand-modeled figurines dated to Dynasties 18 and 19. No more than a dozen of the statues are known. The statuette was likely intended to accompany the deceased into afterlife.
Statuette of Servant Girl-1991.107_print
c. 1323-1186 BC
Egypt, New Kingdom, late Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC) to Dynasty 19
(1295-1186 BC)
Terracotta, originally painted
Overall: 38.4 x 9.2 cm (15 1/8 x 3 5/8 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1991.107
LOCATION
107 Egyptian
Above is the Statuette of a Serving Girl. It is a Terracotta statue of a young servant girl holding a pot in her left hand, her right hand is on her hip. She is standing in the nude with her hair in a side ponytail. She has slit eyes with exaggerated hips and legs that form a triangle. The use of line allows the viewer to move its eye from the top of the statuette to the pot, to the curve of the leg, down to its feet back up to the hand on its right hip and back to the statuettes face. Overall the statuette is an hourglass figurine. The statuette is mainly flat however the navel, breast, pot and face add texture to the figure. The Statuette belongs to a select group of hand-modeled figurines dated to Dynasties 18 and 19. No more than a dozen of the statues are known. The statuette was likely intended to accompany the deceased into afterlife.