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The statuette represents a squatting woman with her slightly bent arms attached by pegs stretched forward and downwards. She wears a tripartite wig and a traditional dress. This is an image of a weaver working at a loom. The body is painted yellow, the whites and the dress are white, the wig, eyebrows, eyelids and pupils are black.

The statuette represents a squatting woman with her slightly bent arms attached by pegs stretched forward and downwards. She wears a tripartite wig and a traditional dress. This is an image of a weaver working at a loom. The body is painted yellow, the whites and the dress are white, the wig, eyebrows, eyelids and pupils are black.

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From the collection of Turaev; the date, place and method of acquisition are unrecorded.

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Bibliography

Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, p.23, cat.no.23, fig.23.
Landa N.B., Lapis I.A., Egyptian Antiquities in the Hermitage. Leningrad, 1974, pl.25.

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Preservation: 
The left arm and the feet that were made separately are lost. The pigments are partly lost.

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