This serene image of Sennuwy, the wife of a provincial governor, is a masterpiece of Egyptian sculpture. Worked in hard, black granite, the rounded forms of Sennuwy’s body are beautifully proportioned, and the smooth planes of her face are strikingly framed by the ribbed patterning of her heavy wig. Sennuwy and her husband were buried at Assiut, in central Egypt, in an elaborate tomb for which this funerary statue was probably made. However, the statue was found far to the south of Egypt, in the burial of a Nubian ruler of Kerma. Apparently, the statue was removed from the tomb in Egypt and taken to Nubia several hundred years after Sennuwy’s death.