Male and Female Offering Bearers
4th century B.C.E.
Maker Unknown
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
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.
- Maker/Artist
- Maker Unknown
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Formatted Medium
- Limestone
- Medium
- limestone
- Locations
- Place made: Egypt
- Period
- Late Period
- Dimensions
- 5 1/8 × 2 15/16 in. (13 × 7.5 cm)
- Accession Number
- 77.193
- Credit Line
- Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Exhibitions
- Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Ancient Egyptian Art
- Rights Statement
- Creative Commons-BY
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