niche
The niche design for the statue of Sen-en-mut measures 1.32m of height and 0.77m of width and is 0.6m deep. The statue is much defaced and it represents a figure seated on a bench which is 0.47m high. The niche is raised 18cm above the level of the floor. According to R.A. Caminos and T.H.G. James the body of the statue is unnaturally thick which suggests that the figure of Neferu-Ra seated on his knees could be sculptured there,[1] A. Kucharek proposes to see the naos placed on the knees of Sen-en-mut, not seated Neferu-Ra.[2] The walls of the niche are undecorated.
Footnotes
Bibliography:
- Caminos, Ricardo A., James, T.G.H., Gebel es-Silsilah. I. The Shrines, Archaeological Survey of Egypt 31, London 1963, 55
- Kucharek, Andrea, Senenmut in Gebel es-Silsilah, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 66, 2010, 151, 153-155, Fig(s). 7-8
- Delvaux, Luc, Hatchepsout Senenmout et l’atelier de Neferkhaout, [in:] W. Claes, H. de Meulenaere, S. Hendrickx (eds), Elkab and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Luc Limme, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 191, Leuven, Paris, Walpole, MA 2009, 249 n. 12
- Meyer, Christine, Senenmut: Eine prosopographische Untersuchung, Hamburger Ägyptologische Studien 2, Hamburg 1982, 107
- Dorman, Peter F., The Monuments of Senenmut: Problems in Historical Methodology, London, New York 1988, 113-114 n. 19