98a: Figures of Baby Boys

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/3/20/1
Level Sub-item
Dimensions 10.9 x 7.9 cm
Scope and Content An illustration of a statuette of a seated male child, with missing arms, at a 3/4 view. This is the same item as 1936/01/03/20/04 from a different angle. The original description in the catalogue reads: "a. figures of baby boys these may be Egyptian and certainly show Egyptian influence: the standing type and the markedly dolicocephalic heads approach some Middle-Kingdom prototypes: (Evans, P.M. III, 446)."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Carved Minoan Ivories"
Related records [BSA SPHS/3/3676.8808], Palaikastro: Ivory statuettes, 1904
[BSA SPHS/1/4249.8807], Palaikastro: Ivory statuettes (front view), 1904
[BSA SPHS/1/4250.8808], Palaikastro: Ivory statuettes (side view), 1904
[BSA SPHS/1/4251.8809], Palaikastro: Ivory statuettes (back view), 1904