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carved from wood. He is depicted kneeling, wearing a chendjit loincloth, with a shaved head, his arms holding a pestle (movable) in front of a tubular mortar with two handles, as if grinding grain.
Ancient Egypt, New Kingdom, 1500 to 1000 BC.
Height: 21.7 cm – Width: 14 cm
(Polychrome, cracks, visible damage)
On an added wooden base.
– Collection of Albert Ceysens (1877–1956), managing director of the Cairo Sugar Company (Egypt), who died there.
– Collection of Suzanne Ceysens (1914–2003), daughter of the above, who left Egypt in 1952 to settle in Belgium
.– Passed down through inheritance to the present day.
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