IDENTIFIERS
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id:	49550
accession number:	E.10.1898

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 1 March 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Limestone standing figure of a male dwarf. The subject is bald with prominent ears. The features are  crudely incised. The arms are perhaps intended to rest on the hips and the feet are turned inwards.  Dwarfs had a special place in society and were often depicted in Egyptian art, in the Old Kingdom as officials and later, in the Ptolemaic and Roman periods as ritual or festival participants.
title:	statuette

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/49550





TECHNIQUES
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carved

CATEGORIES
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category: figure

DATING
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creation date:	3000 - 2500
creation date earliest:	3000
creation date latest:	2500
culture:	Predynastic
culture:	Early Dynastic Period

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 8.5



CITATIONS
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Hierakonpolis I
Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum
Hierakonpolis II
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IMAGES

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