Squatting female figure

Squatting female figure

Female figurine in Greek style, showing a naked woman with legs splayed, and intricate hairdo, in the manner of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, from the city of Naukratis in the Western Delta. The city was a unique Greek colony installed with the permission of the Egyptian kings in the 26th Dynasty, to channel the trade between the Nile valley and the Aegean.

pottery

NAUKRATIS

Late period

From the division of finds excavated by the Egypt Exploration Fund at Naukratis. Given to the museum in 1911.

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND

http://www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=2455