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Group statue Old KingdomElkab

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 62.201.2. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 62.201.2
Find spot: Elkab, Southern Upper Egypt approx. site location
Period: Old Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 4
Date: ca. 2575–2465 B.C.
Date range: 2575 BCE – 2465 BCE
Materials: ['limestone']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Group statue (62.201.2). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/31211

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Statue group, lower section. Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, ca. 2575–2465 B.C. Limestone. Possibly from: Elkab, Southern Upper Egypt. Credit: Gift of Ernst E. Kofler, 1962.

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