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Paddle Doll in the Brooklyn Museum, January 2010
Paddle Doll
So-called paddle dolls are flat, schematic representations of naked, legless female figures on which jewelry, belts, and other details have been painted or drawn. Made as fertility figures, they were dedicated to goddesses by women or couples hoping to bear children. Some are adorned with strings of mud pellets, apparently imitating hair. Many aslo have painted images—possibly representing tattoos—of deities such as Bes and Taweret or of human coupls in sexual embrace.
Medium: Wood, clay
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 2081-1700 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XI Dynasty-XIII Dynasty
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in. (22.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 37.101E
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3964/Paddle...
So-called paddle dolls are flat, schematic representations of naked, legless female figures on which jewelry, belts, and other details have been painted or drawn. Made as fertility figures, they were dedicated to goddesses by women or couples hoping to bear children. Some are adorned with strings of mud pellets, apparently imitating hair. Many aslo have painted images—possibly representing tattoos—of deities such as Bes and Taweret or of human coupls in sexual embrace.
Medium: Wood, clay
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 2081-1700 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XI Dynasty-XIII Dynasty
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in. (22.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 37.101E
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3964/Paddle...
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