Returned to lender The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Statuette of a Seated Man
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 uninscribed statuette depicts a young man dressed in a long kilt and a type of wig more typically worn by women. It was discovered in the burial chamber of a standard shaft tomb in Abydos. Apart from a simple wood coffin containing the skeleton of a man, it was the only piece of funerary equipment. Small figures similar to this one must have been placed in the niches of the adjacent miniature chapel.
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