Statue
private statue
45.0cm
granodiorite
38.0cm
Granodiorite statue of Ah-mes Pen-Nekhbet. Represents a sitting official wearing shendjyt with hands on his knees. Along his legs two columns of ḥtp-dj-nswt-formula are carved. On two sides and at the back of the statue, the biographical inscription is carved. The statue is damaged and only the lower part is preserved. The inscription on the left side is in very poor condition.
Found by Alexander Finlay in 1883 "dans les ruines d'El-Kab".[1]
Footnotes
Museum object
W.V. Davies suggests that it once stood in the temple of Nekhbet in Elkab.[1]
Footnotes
^ Davies, A View from Elkab, 401
Bibliography:
- Davies, W. Vivian, A View from Elkab: The Tomb and Statues of Ahmose-Pennekhbet, in: José M. Galán, Betsy M. Bryan, Peter F. Dorman (eds.), Occasional Proceedings of the Theban Workshop. Creativity and Innovation in the Reign of Hatshepsut. Papers from the Theban Workshop 2010, Studies in Ancient Oriental Civilization 69, Chicago 2014, 401-406, Fig(s). 16.27-35
- Sethe, Kurt, Urkunden der 18. Dynastie. Historisch-biographische Urkunden, Leipzig 1906, 35-39, text
- Maspero, Gaston, Notes sur quelques points de Grammaire et dʼHistoire, Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde XXI, 1883, 77-78 [XLIV], text
- Goring, Elizabeth, Cyril Aldred: 'A Very Cautious Young Man', in: Elizabeth Goring, Nicholas Reeves, John Ruffle (eds.), Chief of Seers: Egyptian Studies in Memory of Cyril Aldred, London 1997, 5-6, 11, Fig(s). 5
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings V. Upper Egypt: Sites (Deir Rîfa to Aswân, Excluding Thebes and the Temples of Abydos, Dendera, Esna, Edfu, Kôm Ombo and Philae), 2nd ed., Oxford 1962, 191