“They’ve captured her in a moment in time.”
Curator Catharine Roehrig on this Middle Kingdom estate figure, a masterpiece of Egyptian wood carving.
Sustenance
Catharine H. Roehrig
2 min. watch
Contributors
Catharine H. Roehrig
Curator Emerita, Department of Egyptian Art
Curator Emerita, Department of Egyptian Art
Photography by Katherine Dahab
Photographs by Harry Burton, Egyptian Expedition, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art Mentioned
ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
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