Statue of a nursing woman
Painted statue of a nursing woman sitting on the ground with one knee raised. She holds a female child, supporting its head with her left hand while pulling her breast toward its mouth. A male child, squatting behind the woman's right hip, pulls her right breast between her arm and body to his mouth.
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- ID
- MMA_26.7.1405
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- Department
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Said to be from tomb of Nikauinpu, location unknown, presumed to be at Giza
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- h. 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in)
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- Credit Line
- MMA, Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5 or Dynasty 6
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- Object owned by
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Notes
- Formerly Carnarvon Collection, purchased in Cairo from Nicolas Tano probably about 1920. Carnarvon Collection purchased by the Museum from Lady Carnarvon, 1926.
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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- Type Object owned by