Male and Female Offering Bearers
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Object Label
These figures must once have formed part of a tomb relief of a procession of figures bringing offerings to the deceased. Semi-nudity for subservient figures is not rare in Egyptian art. However, the combination of these figures' scanty attire, the boldness of the relief carving, and the semi-frontal depiction of the woman is sufficiently unusual to help date this relief to the second half of the fourth century B.C.
Caption
Male and Female Offering Bearers, 4th century B.C.E.. Limestone, 5 1/8 × 2 15/16 in. (13 × 7.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 77.193. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.77.193_wwg8.jpg)
Title
Male and Female Offering Bearers
Date
4th century B.C.E.
Period
Late Period
Geography
Place made: Egypt
Medium
Limestone
Classification
Dimensions
5 1/8 × 2 15/16 in. (13 × 7.5 cm)
Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Accession Number
77.193
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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