Keywords: Egyptian - Statue of a Monkey with Young - Walters 54392.jpg The small statuette represents a seated female monkey with one of its young on its lap Its left hand rests on the left upright leg and with its right hand it eats a fruit Monkeys were popular in Egypt and were depicted in tomb paintings as companions of the people in the fields as well as musicians and dancers ca 1400 1250 BC New Kingdom bronze cm 5 3 6 3 2 ; mount cm 3 7 4 8 4 7 accession number 54 392 7254 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1909 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian statues in the Walters Art Museum Monkeys in Ancient Egypt Statues of the Egyptian New Kingdom Statues of monkeys |