Egyptian statuette of a woman and boy

An image of Figure/Statuette of a female figure and a boy. The woman has her right arm stretched out around the boy's shoulders; the boy has his left forefinger on his lips. Diorite, carved, height 11.5cm, 2055-1650 B.C. Middle Kingdom; Twelfth Dynasty. Find Spot: Haraga, Egypt.

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Figure/Statuette of a female figure and a boy. The woman has her right arm stretched out around the boy's shoulders; the boy has his left forefinger on his lips. Diorite, carved, height 11.5cm, 2055-1650 B.C. Middle Kingdom; Twelfth Dynasty. Find Spot: Haraga, Egypt.

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Accession Number: E.3.1914
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/45.0
Focal length: 120
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Jaymes Sinclair
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 768 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.7 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 120.55kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 45/1

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Ancient Egypt antiquity BC boys carved child children diorite Egyptian female figure Fitz_ANT Middle Kingdom mother mother and child statuette woman

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