Paddle Doll
date: label: Accession Date
content: 31 Dec 1958
name: label: Donor Name
content: C A. Kemper
label: Site Name
content: Lisht
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Paddle-shaped doll of wood. Painted decorative bands to represent skirt. Wig made of strings of beads. Card on container says, "Paddle doll. Excavated in Lisht in 1912. XXIIth dynasty. One of the few surviving examples which still retains beaded wig. 2000 B.C.""
label: Notes
content: Paddle-shaped doll/instrument. Painted decorative bands to represent skirt with pubic triangle. Wig made of strings of beads.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Paddle doll, 1994-1781 BC. Researchers are not sure what role these objects played in the eternal world. Similar ones appeared in many tombs, and they may relate to rebirth or continuing fertility in the afterlife.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 11 Jul 2017
label: Specimen Count
content: 4
place: label: Place
content: Lisht, Lower Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian, Middle Kingdom Period, Dynasty XII
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 224343
label: USNM Number
content: A419789-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figure
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 20 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 5 cm