Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Head of a Woman Wearing an Elaborate Wig New KingdomEgypt

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.256E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.256E
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: late Dynasty 18 to Dynasty 19
Date: ca. 1352–1190 B.C.E.
Date range: 1352 BCE – 1190 BCE
Materials: ['Limestone', 'pigment']
Height: 17.1 cm
Width: 12.1 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Head of a Woman Wearing an Elaborate Wig (37.256E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/19338

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Caption: Head of a Woman Wearing an Elaborate Wig, ca. 1352–1190 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 6 3/4 × 4 3/4 × 7 1/4 in. (17.1 × 12.1 × 18.4 cm) mount: 7 × 6 1/2 × 5 in. (17.8 × 16.5 × 12.7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.256E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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Materials Limestone Pigment Traces

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BKM-Accession 37.256E tier-2
BKM-Object 116948 tier-2

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