Lot 15
An Egyptian indurated limestone statue of a kneeling official
5 October 2011, 10:30 BST
New Bond StreetSold for £20,000 inc. premium
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An Egyptian indurated limestone statue of a kneeling official
Middle Kingdom, late 12th-13th Dynasty, circa 1850-1700 B.C.
In typical attire, bare-chested and wearing a high waisted skirt knotted at the front, sitting cross-legged on a rectangular plinth, wearing a short wig with tapered ends and a band across the brow, his hands resting flat on his thighs, with two vertical columns of hieroglyphs inscribed down the front of the skirt, containing the standard funerary offering formula asked of the Memphite god Ptah-Sokar, 'A gift which the king gives (to) Ptah-Sokar that he may give invocation offerings consisting of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, alabaster and clothing, all things good and pure on which a god lives', on behalf of the deceased who is named on the horizontal row of text on the front of the plinth as the 'Provincial Governor, Overseer of Priests, Ameny-Senb born of Sat-Sobek-Hotep', 12in (30.5cm) high
Middle Kingdom, late 12th-13th Dynasty, circa 1850-1700 B.C.
In typical attire, bare-chested and wearing a high waisted skirt knotted at the front, sitting cross-legged on a rectangular plinth, wearing a short wig with tapered ends and a band across the brow, his hands resting flat on his thighs, with two vertical columns of hieroglyphs inscribed down the front of the skirt, containing the standard funerary offering formula asked of the Memphite god Ptah-Sokar, 'A gift which the king gives (to) Ptah-Sokar that he may give invocation offerings consisting of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, alabaster and clothing, all things good and pure on which a god lives', on behalf of the deceased who is named on the horizontal row of text on the front of the plinth as the 'Provincial Governor, Overseer of Priests, Ameny-Senb born of Sat-Sobek-Hotep', 12in (30.5cm) high
Footnotes
Provenance:
With Peter Sharrer, New York, 1970s.
Gawain McKinley Collection, (1945-1996).
Literature:
Cf. J. Vandier, La Statuaire Égyptienne, Manuel D'Archéologie Égyptienne, Tome III, 'Les Grandes Époques La Statuaire', Paris 1958, pl. XCIII, no. 4, Philadelphia 253.