Description & Technical information

Period:  Middle Kingdom 2040 to 1782 BC
Origin:  Egypt
Provenance: Excavated in 1913-14 by the British School of Archaeology in Egypt from half-way up a shaft in Cemetery E, Harageh, The Fayum, near Lahun.
Property of the Archaeological Institute of America, St. Louis Society Inc. Acquired circa 1914 and listed on Engelbach's Harageh Dispersal List as having been presented to 'SL' (St Louis).
Sold at: Antiquities, Bonhams, 2nd October 2014, London, Lot 162.
Private Collection, acquired from the above sale.

Categories: Classical & Egyptian antiquities, Sculpture