Princess Sobeknakht Suckling a PrinceEgyptian, Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period, ca. 1700-after 1630 B.C.E. Copper alloy, 4 x 2 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (10.2 x 7 x 8.3 cm) Brooklyn #43.137, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund Photos © Joan Ann Lansberry 2012-2016
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(From the info card.) "Beginning in the Middle Kingdom, craftsmen demonstrated great skill in designing and manufacturing metal statuary. This copper statuette, representing a woman suckling a male child, is considered among the finest of these sculptures. The inscription on the base identifies the subject as the 'hereditary noblewoman' Sobeknakht; her fillet and uraeus-cobra show that she is a princess. The figure may have been commissioned to celebrate the birth of a prince, to signal a reigning king's devotion to his mother, or to reflect Sobeknakht's wish for divine help in conceiving a child who would become Egypt's king."
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