Title

Figurine

Creator

Preview

Creation Date

9th–10th centuries

Geography

Egypt

Culture

Fatimid, Byzantine, Coptic

Medium

Bone

Dimensions

2 in.

Credit Line

Bequest of David P. Harris ('46), 2020

Accession Number

2020.177

Provenance

Purchased by David P. Harris from Julia Schottlander (Tetragon) in London on October 22, 1994. Said to be from a mid-nineteenth-century French collection.

References

Brad Hostetler, with Ani Parnagian, "From Private to Public: The Collection of David P. Harris," in Ethiopian Objects in the Blick-Harris Study Collection: Art, Context, and the Persistence of Form, eds. Brad Hostetler, and Lynn Jones, Peregrinations: Journal of Medieval Art & Architecture 8, no. 1 (Spring 2022): 5–25. https://digital.kenyon.edu/perejournal/vol8/iss1/1/

Description

A similar object at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology at the University of Michigan (1969.2.93) was found in Fustat, Egypt (Old Cairo). For a color image, see Christine Gruber, ed., The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World (London: Gingko, 2019), p. 22, fig. 12.