Statue

Description

Pair statue in fine yellow sandstone of a Chief of the Medjai (police) and his wife seated side by side, wearing long pleated robes, collars and heavy wigs, excavated by A.H. Rhind: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, beginning of the 19th Dynasty, c.1323-1279 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.143

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Statue

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

19th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Ancient Egyptian

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Sandstone

Collection place(s)

Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863

Exhibitions

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

• The Tomb

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

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

References

Rhind, A. H. 1862. Thebes: Its Tombs and Their Tenants..., p. 90‒1; pl. 4.

Murray, M. A. 1900. Catalogue of Egyptian Antiquities in the National Museum of Antiquities Edinburgh, p. 24‒5, 54.

Vandier, J. 1958. Manuel d'Archaeologie Egyptienne III: Les Grandes Epoques. La Statuaire, p. 668

Hema, Rehab Assem. 2005. Group Statues of Private Individuals in the New Kingdom, BAR International Series 1413, Vol. 1, pp. 262-3, 383-8, Vol. 2, pp. 257-8, pl. 121.

Comic-strip by Mohammed Nasser and Heba Abd el Gawad, ‘The Chief of Luxor’s Police and Wife in Isolation’, 3 April 2020: https://twitter.com/nasser_junior/status/1246144180516196355?s=21

Egypt's Dispersed Heritage Project: https://www.nms.ac.uk/collections-research/our-research/current-research/egypt-s-dispersed-heritage/

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 5 »
world cultures, ancient egypt rediscovered