Statuette of an Official Wearing a Long Kilt
18th century BCE
Description
Statuette of an official with base and inscribed back pillar. The man wears a long kilt with high waist; his two hands lie flat on the kilt. The proper left side of his head appears damaged and recarved.
Dimensions
19.7 x 5 x 8.1 cm (7 3/4 x 1 15/16 x 3 3/16 in.)
Provenance
From Aswan. Field Marshal Baron Francis Wallace Grenfell, (by 1917), Surrey, England, sold: [Sotheby, London, 12-14 November 1917]. Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Sachs, Cambridge, MA, (by 1919), bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.
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