Statue
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin, 2005
10.0cm
indurated limestone
Small statuette of the king made of indurated limestone. By the style it is classyfied as Thutmose III or Hatshepsut. It represents a king wearing nemes and a royal beard. Only upper part of statuette is preserved.
Bought in Saqqara by R. Lepsius in 1840s.
Museum object
The provenance from Memphis is uncertain.
Bibliography:
- Lipińska, Jadwiga, Dolińska, Monika, Aksamit, Joanna, Geheimnisvolle Königin Hatschepsut. Ägyptische Kunst des 15. Jahrhunderts v. Ch., Warschau 1997, cat. no. 5
- Hall, H.R., A New Portrait-Head of Tuthmosis III(?) at Berlin and the Portraits of Hatschepsut, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology XV.1/2, 1929, 78-79, Pl(s). XV.1
- Tefnin, Roland, La statuaire d’Hatshepsout. Portrait royal et politique sous la 18e dynastie, Monumenta Aegyptiaca 4, Bruxelles 1979, 157
- Grimm, Alfred, Schoske, Sylvia, Hatschepsut KönigIN Ägyptens, Schriften der Ägyptischen Sammlung 8, München 1999, 60 [20]
- Ägyptisches Museum Berlin, Berlin 1967, cat. no. 554