Female figures of this type, often found with burials especially of the Middle Kingdom, were in the past called "concubines."
Nowadays they are understood in a more general sense as representions of the life giving female powers of sexual attraction and giving birth, powers from which the dead could derive a new life. As most representatives of the type, this faience figure lacks the lower legs and has elaborate tatoos all over its body. The figure also wears a girdle of cowrie shell shaped beads and a long bead necklace crossed over the chest. The hair is arranged in the so-called "Hathor" style–two thick tresses with curled ends falling forward over the shoulders.
Date: Middle Kingdom, ca. 1850–1640 B.C. ?
Medium: Faience
Source: MET New York