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Statuette of Senebi
Middle Kingdom
Not on view
This object is not part of The Met collection. It was in the Museum for a special exhibition and has been returned to the lender.
Senbi is shown in the typical standing pose used to depict women, wearing a beaded broad collar over a tight sheath dress with straps that cover her breasts. A simple offering text is written on the base: "Invocation offerings of bread and beer, . . . to the one revered before Osiris, Senbi, mistress of veneration." The figure is probably a ka statue, representing part of Senbi’s soul, that would have been placed in an offering chapel or inside her tomb.
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