Sphinx

Description

Limestone Sphinx with traces of pigment, showing King Ahmose I wearing the nemes headdress: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Abydos, Temple of Osiris, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c. 1550-1525 BC

Museum reference

A.1900.212.10

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Sphinx

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

c. 1550 - 1225 BC

Style / Culture

18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Limestone

Physical description

Limestone; traces of pigment

Collection place(s)

Temple of Osiris, Abydos, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: King Ahmose

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

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

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

References

Stable, C., Maitland, M., de Bellaigue, D., Potter, D. M., Murray, M. and Bryan, B. (2021) ‘Rediscovering Ancient Egypt: Consideration of the Legacy, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Previously Restored Egyptian Artefacts’, Journal of the Institute of Conservation, 44/2, pp.134-152

Randall-MacIver, D. and Mace, A. C. 1902. El Amrah and Abydos 1899-1901, p. 56; pl. xxii. 21

Helck, W., Otto, E., Westendorf, W. 1980. Lexikon der Ägyptologie vol. 3, p. 593

Lindblad 1984, pp. 23-4, pl. 10 a-d

Roehrig, C. H. (ed) 2005. Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, p. 25

Pharaonen und Fremde 1994, 262, cat. no. 360

Sfinx 2006, 222, cat. no. 71

On display

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