Statue
Museo del Vicino Oriente del Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Archeologiche e Antropologiche dell’Antichità dell’Universita di Roma „La Sapienza”, Rome
private statue
45.0cm
36.5cm
granite
35.0cm
Base and lower part of the statue of kneeling dignitary Teti made of grey granite with inscription carved on his knee and at the top of the base around the figure. Upper part of the figure is missing.
No royal name is preserved. The statue is dated on the basis of the stylistic criteria of the statue, stylistic criteria of the text and erased cartouche of the king which could belong to Hatshepsut.
Antiquarian purchase.
Museum object
Bibliography:
- Sist, Loredana, Un frammento di statua da Crocodilopoli, Vicino Oriente VIII.2, 1992, 49-68, Pl(s). I
- Málek, Jaromir, Miles, Elizabeth, Magee, Diana, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings Volume VIII. Objects of Provenance Not Known. Part 2. Private Statues: Dynasty XVIII to the Roman Period. Statues of Deities, Oxford 1999, 557
- Herbin, François-René, Histoire du Fayoum de la XVIIIe à la XXXe dynastie, unpublished PhD, Paris 1980, 179-180 (doc. 183)
- Zecchi, Marco, Hieroglyphic Inscriptions from the Fayyum III, Bologna 2012, 112-113