Statue / king

Description

Statue in greywacke of Ramesses IX wearing a shendyt kilt and nemes headdress and prostrating himself on his left knee: Ancient Egyptian, Lower Egypt, probably heliopolis, 20th Dynasty, c.1126-1108 BC

Museum reference

A.1965.1

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Statue / king

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

20th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Arkose, Greywacke

Physical description

Green arkose

Collection place(s)

Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: Ramesses IX

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

Aldred in JEA 41 (1955), 3-8 pl. i

Aldred in Leclant, L'Empire des Conquérants fig. 185

Aldred, Egyptian Art, 198 fig. 163

Vandier, Manuel iii, 631 [C, N.E. V] (as basalt) pl. cxxxii [2]

Apollo lxxvi (1962), fig. on 135 [lower right]

Swan Hall in ib. lxxxvii (1968), 168 fig. 14

Things to see in the Royal Scottish Museum No. 1 fig

Clayton, P. A. Chronicle of the Pharaohs fig. on 170 [upper]

Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions vi, 449 [2, B]

Goring, E. in Chief of Seers: Egyptian Studies in Memory of Cyril Aldred, 5, fig. 4

On display

national museum of scotland »
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world cultures, ancient egypt rediscovered