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Wooden statue which was originally covered with a layer of gesso and painted of Wepwawet-Em-Hat from tomb 14 at Asyut dating to the 10th or 11th Dynasty (1st Intermediate Period). He is carrying a staff and sceptre and is wearing a kilt. His eyes are inlaid and an indentation at this neck suggests that a chain of office was placed there. There The tomb was discovered in 1903, un-plundered. The statue is inscribed "the revered one Wepwawet-Em-Hat" and his name refers to the jackal-headed god Wepwawet who guided people through the underworld.
Boston Museum of Fine Art. |