Seated Scribe
- Date
- 1391/1353 BC
- Medium
- Graywacke
- Dimensions
-
2 1/2 x 2 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. ( 6.4 x 6.4 x 5.7 cm.)
- Department
- Africa, Oceania & Indigenous Americas
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Credit
- Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass and Constance Haass
- Accession No.
- 31.70
- Provenance
- Collections:
Raife
Kalibdjian Freres (dealer), Paris, 1925
Haass
- Keywords
-
basalt, statuette, stone, mythology
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