Lot 23
23
AN EGYPTIAN FRAGMENTARY GRAY LIMESTONE STATUE
AN EGYPTIAN FRAGMENTARY GRAY LIMESTONE STATUE

NEW KINGDOM, LATE DYNASTY XVIII, 1335-1307 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN FRAGMENTARY GRAY LIMESTONE STATUE
NEW KINGDOM, LATE DYNASTY XVIII, 1335-1307 B.C.
Preserving a portion of the proper left side of a seated figure, including the back leg of a lion-paw chair or throne, a partial vertical column of hieroglyphs in front of the chair leg reading, "His son whom he loves his beloved, [Hu]y," and a horizontal band on a raised molding below reading, "[beauti]ful [go]od in," the back preserving seven partial vertical columns of hieroglyphs above a partial horizontal line reading, "[...Atum, Lord of the T]wo Lands, the Heliopolitan, the living Disk who created himself by himself, lord of radiance, numerous of" ... "[...when he rises i]n the eastern horizon and when he sets in the western horizon; Osiris of for?" ... "[...Anubis, Foremost of] the God's Booth, He Who is upon His Hill, Lord of the Necropolis; Anubis Who is in the Embalming-Place, an offering-table" ... "[...pige]ons, incense, wine, milk" ... "...an offering which the king gives May the King be gracious and give offering-cakes placed with in your name in the necropolis" ... "...every day, drinking in the lake of the pool fountain, resting in being satisfied with" ... "...entering and going forth your wishes that which you desire(?)"
12¾ in. (32.3 cm.) high
Provenance
James Douglas Collection, donated to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1890. Metropolitan Museum of Art (no. 90.6.122), New York, deacessioned through the book shop in 1958.
Joseph Goodyear, Ridgewood, N.J.

Lot Essay

This fine, hard gray limestone is perhaps from the Tura quarry. For the material see pp. 40-42 in Nicholson and Shaw, eds., Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology.

The inscription suggests a post-Amarna date, as the phraseology "living Disk" and the emphasis on solar theology echoes Amarna religion. However, the prominence of invocations to the traditional deities determines that it cannot be from the Amarna Period proper.

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