Statue
private statue
17.2cm
47.2cm
granite
29.3cm
Statue of Sen-en-mut made of granite. Sen-en-mut is represented with a simple wig, kneeling and offering a cryptographic transcription of the prenomen of Hatshepsut, the cobra with a sun disk between its horns sitting on kȝ-arms, to Monthu from Armant. The inscription is carved in sunken relief in three columns on the obelisk-shaped back pillar of the statue, and continues in line around the base, on the top edge of the base in line, and on the edges of the back written in two columns. Names of Sen-en-mut were erased and not restored.
Museum object
Bibliography:
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