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Statuette of Lady Kemtet

Middle Kingdom

ca. 1900–1802 B.C.

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 110

The inscription on the front of the base reads: "A royal offering of Osiris, lord of Busiris, the great god, lord of Abydos, giving an invocation offering of bread and beer, cattle and fowl to the ka (life force) of Kemtet, justified."

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Title: Statuette of Lady Kemtet

Period: Middle Kingdom

Dynasty: Dynasty 12, mid–late

Date: ca. 1900–1802 B.C.

Geography: From Egypt, Fayum Entrance Area, Haraga, Cemetery B, Tomb 262, BSAE excavations 1913-1914

Medium: Painted wood

Dimensions: H. 19 × W. 6.5 × D. 12 cm (7 1/2 × 2 9/16 × 4 3/4 in.)

Credit Line: Gift of The Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1915

Accession Number: 15.4.1

Chronology

Egypt, 2000-1000 B.C.

The Scepter of Egypt: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 1, From the Earliest Times to the End of the Middle Kingdom

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