Statue
private statue
13.4cm
38.1cm
graywacke
19.3cm
Greywacke statue of a seated figure of Ah-mes Ruru wearing the cloak incribed with one column of text. On the seat there are six columns of inscription on each side and one column at the back pillar. Cartouches of Hatshepsut were erased and replaced by those of Thutmose I and Thutmose III. Front part of base and feet of Ah-mes are missing.
Museum object
The provenance is unknown. B.V. Bothmer suggested that it could come from Gebelein.[1]
Footnotes
^ 618: Private Sculpture of Dynasty XVIII in Brooklyn - - - Bothmer, Bernard V..
Bibliography:
- Roehrig, Catharine H., Dreyfus, Renée, Keller, Cathleen A., Hatshepsut. From Queen to Pharaoh, New Haven, London 2005, 282, no. 198
- Bothmer, Bernard V., Private Sculpture of Dynasty XVIII in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum Annual 8, 1966-1967, 55-61, Fig(s). 1-4
- Ratié, Suzanne, La reine Hatchepsout: Sources et problèmes, Orientalia Monspeliensia 1, Leiden 1979, 285
- Sauneron, Serge, La statue d'Ahmosé, dit Rourou au musée de Brooklyn, Kêmi: revue de philologie et d'archéologie égyptiennes et coptes XVIII, 1968, 45-50
- Aldred, Cyril, New Kingdom Art in Ancient Egypt during the Eighteenth Dynasty 1570 to 1320 B.C., 2nd ed., London 1961, 56, Pl(s). 47
- Eggebrecht, Arne, Eggebrecht, Eva, Ägyptens Aufstieg zur Weltmacht, Mainz am Rhein 1987, 160-161 [72]