Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.33254/piaz.39.2.1
Ancient Egyptian paddle doll from the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb
Tomislav Kiš
; Sesvete, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper presents the first detailed examination of the paddle doll from the collection of the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb. Paddle dolls are a group of specific grave goods primarily dating from a period between the end of the Old Kingdom and the Middle Kingdom, most of which share common morphological, decorative and iconographic characteristics. The Zagreb paddle doll is particularly important because some of its aspects differ from most other examples and because it is the only object of this type kept in the museums and galleries in Croatia and beyond. Therefore, the main goal of the paper is to provide a typological classification of the doll, describe it, place it in the appropriate geographical and temporal context, and briefly emphasize its importance for a better understanding of the collection it belongs to. More precisely, the paper studies the doll within the wider corpus of ancient Egyptian paddle dolls, describing its basic characteristics and history of research in the middle part, but also within the collection of ancient Egyptian antiquities in the Archaeological Museum in Zagreb.
Keywords
Archaeological Museum in Zagreb; paddle doll; Middle Kingdom; ancient Egypt
Hrčak ID:
287981
URI
Publication date:
21.12.2022.
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