Model of an Ox

55.82.67

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Large squared model of an ox, painted white with black spots. Horns of separate wood set in the head. From Beni Hasan tomb 280. From Beni Hasan, cemetery below the Middle Kingdom rock-cut tombs: excavated by John Garstang of the Liverpool Institute of Archaeology, 1902-1904. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Incomplete, large crack down centre of back, dry and cracking, surface loss, surface dirt, woodworn holes.