Nubian Prisoner
- Holding institution:
- Brooklyn Museum
- Data provider:
- Brooklyn Museum
- Title:
- Nubian Prisoner
- Creator:
- Egyptian
- Date:
- ca. 1539-1190 B.C.E.
- Description:
- Bound and kneeling bronze figure of a Nubian. The figure, whose hands are bound behind his back is garbed only in a kilt. This piece is normally described as part of a piece of furniture, and perhaps it was made, to judge from representations of furniture in tomb ptgs., to be set onto a horizontal connection between two chair legs. There is no indication that the top of the head supported anything. Condition: Figure pitted on right side at level of waist; kilt and knees are abraded. Patina black with traces of copper metal showing through areas of rubbing. Pitted on back. Treated previously-possible varnish.
- Type:
- Sculpture
- Type (Narrower):
- Sculptures
- Type (Broader):
- Object
- Geographic region:
- Saqqara, Egypt
- Time period:
- New Kingdom
- Provenance:
- Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
- Medium:
- Bronze
- Extent:
- 5 5/8 x 2 1/8 x 3 3/16 in. (14.3 x 5.4 x 8.1 cm)
- Rights:
- Creative Commons-BY
- Identifier:
- Accession Number: 37.267E
- Is part of:
- Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art