Statuette / dignitary

Description

Greywacke statuette of a seated official named Senusret, seated upon a block seat, wearing a cloak with crossed arms, inscribed on one side with a hieroglyphic inscriptuion: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, possibly Abydos, Middle Kingdom, c.2025 - 1700 BC

Museum reference

A.1952.137

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Statuette / dignitary

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Middle Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Greywacke

Collection place(s)

Abydos, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Hilton Price Collection
Previous owner: Hilton Price, Frederick George, 1842 - 1909

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

References

Connor, Simon (2020), Être et paraître, Statues royales et privées de la fin du Moyen Empire et de la Deuxième Période intermédiaire (1850-1550 av. J.-C.), 307.

Vandier, J. 1958. Manuel d’archéologie égyptienne. Vol. 3, Les grandes époques. La statuaire, 231, 599 [m]

Aldred, C. 1953. “The Statue Head of a Tuthmoside Monarch.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 39: 48–49.

Persons and Names of the Middle Kingdom, Version 3 (name 3595; accessed March 2, 2022), https://pnm.uni-mainz.de/3/inscription/3595 doi:10.5281/zenodo.1411391