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Bowl with a Nubian Hunter
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.
This bowl is one of a pair deposited in front of a tomb that predates them. It shows a Nubian, while the companion bowl depicts an Egyptian. Both hunt desert animals while accompanied by dogs and hold bow and arrows in outstretched arms. A fish and a bird may evoke the marsh scenes in elite tombs. Egypt did not dominate Nubia in the early Eleventh Dynasty, so the bowls likely represent the peaceful coexistence of a mixed population at Egypt’s southern frontier.
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