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Object Type: statue
Museum number: EA5
Description: Granodiorite statue of Amenhotep III: the statue, mounted on a pedestal, represents a figure seated on a throne, wearing the 'nemes' head-dress with uraeus, and a beard, bead-collar, short skirt and tail. On the sides of the throne is incised a hieroglyphic symbol flanked by lily and papyrus flowers intertwined, symbolising the union of the Two Lands. The inscriptions are incised on the girdle of the skirt and on the front and back of the throne. The inscriptions are well preserved, with the exception of the one on the right-hand side of the front of the throne, which is somewhat mutilated. The cartouches containing the name of Amenhotep III and the other places in which this name appears have been erased and recut in antiquity. The statue has been restored.
Cultures/periods: 18th Dynasty
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Temple of Amenhotep III (Thebes)
Materials: granodiorite
Technique: incised
Dimensions: Height: 290 centimetres; Length: 141 centimetres; Width: 83 centimetres
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Inscription subject: royal
Bibliographic references: Yorke and Leake 1826 / Remarks on some Egyptian monuments in England (p. 5, pl. II, fig. 4); Arundale and Bonomi 1842 / Gallery of antiquities selected from the British Museum (pl. 35); Porter & Moss 1929 / Topographical bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings 2: Theban Temples (p. 165); Edwards 1939 / Hieroglyphic Texts from Egyptian Stelae e.t.c. in the British Museum (p. 10, pl.11); Vandier 1958 / Manuel d’archéologie égyptienne (p. 318, p. 322, p.327); Porter and Moss 1972 / Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 2: Theban Temples (p. 452); McNaught 1978 / Henry Salt: His contribution to the Collections of Egyptian Sculpture in the British Museum (pp. 227- 228); Habachi and Haeny 1981 / Zur ausstattung des tempels statuen reliefreste inschriften (p. 52, n. 177); Bryan 1987 / Portrait Sculpture of Thutmose IV (p. 8, n. 15); James 1988 / Ancient Egypt: the Land and its Legacy (fig. 119); Müller 1988 / Die Kunst Amenophis' III und Echnatons (IV: p. 9; p. 26; p. 33; p. 39; p. 151, figs. 2, 3a- 3b; I: p. 20); Vandersleyen 1990 / The sculpture in the round of Amenhotep III: types and purposes (p. 5); Bryan and Kozloff 1992 / Egypt's Dazzling Sun (p. 143, fig. V.25, ref. 69; p. 145; p. 144, ref. 72; p. 148, ref. 92; p. 160, ref. 7; p. 172, ref. 2; p. 462, tab. 1; p.468, tab 4a; p. 472, tab 5); Kozloff et al. 1993 / Aménophis III, le pharaon-soleil (p. 396, tab. 1; p. 402, tab. 4a; p.406, tab. 5); Aston et al. 2000 / Stone (p. 37); Strudwick 2006 / Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt (pp. 151- 152)
Location: On display (G4/B29)
Condition: fair - restored
Associated names: Representation of: Amenhotep III
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Henry Salt
Acquisition date: 1823
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA5
Registration number: .5
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 4 (exhibition number marked on the object); Miscellaneous number: BS. 21 (Birch Slip Number also used as registration number in Budge, Sculpture Guide’)
Conservation: Treatment: 20 Feb 2015; Treatment: 06 Feb 2015

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