Princess Sobeknakht Suckling a Prince Egypt
Description
Object Label: Beginning in the Middle Kingdom, craftsmen demonstrated great skill in designing and manufacturing metal statuary. This copper statuette, representing a woman suckling a male child, is considered among the finest of these sculptures. The inscription on the base identifies the subject as the "hereditary noblewoman" Sobeknakht; her fillet and uraeus-cobra show that she is a princess. The figure may have been commissioned to celebrate the birth of a prince, to signal a reigning king's devotion to his mother, or to reflect Sobeknakht's wish for divine help in conceiving a child who would become Egypt's king. Caption: Princess Sobeknakht Suckling a Prince, ca. 1700–after 1630 B.C.E.. Copper alloy, 4 x 2 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (10.2 x 7 x 8.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 43.137. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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- BKM-Accession 43.137 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3463 tier-2
- PNM-Object pnm:83889233 tier-2 (inventory-match)
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