Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · figurine

Model of a Man Plowing Middle Kingdom

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 36.5. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 36.5
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: early to mid-Dynasty 12
Date: ca. 1981–1885 B.C.
Date range: 1981 BCE – 1885 BCE
Materials: ['painted wood']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Model of a Man Plowing (36.5). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/459

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Middle Kingdom, early to mid-Dynasty 12, ca. 1981–1885 B.C. Painted wood. H. 20 cm (7 7/8 in.); L. 49.8 cm (19 5/8 in.); W. 19.4 cm (7 5/8 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Men, Working, Ox. Credit: Gift of Valdemar Hammer Jr., in memory of his father, 1936.

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