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A NEW KINGDOM BRONZE FIGURE OF A RECLINING CALF, tail curled over its haunches, circa 1400 B.C.
1½ x 1in. (3.8 x 2.1cm.)
Weight: 43.1 grams
Cf a cow-headed weight in use in the Tomb of Nebamon, reproduced in Dictionaire de la Civilisation Égyptienne, Paris, p. 34; B. Kisch, Scales and Weights, Yale, 1965, fig. 77, for a cow weight now in the Petrie Museum; and W. C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, II, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959, fig. 130, for a lead-filled bronze calf weight
1½ x 1in. (3.8 x 2.1cm.)
Weight: 43.1 grams
Cf a cow-headed weight in use in the Tomb of Nebamon, reproduced in Dictionaire de la Civilisation Égyptienne, Paris, p. 34; B. Kisch, Scales and Weights, Yale, 1965, fig. 77, for a cow weight now in the Petrie Museum; and W. C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt, II, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1959, fig. 130, for a lead-filled bronze calf weight