statue
- Museum number
- EA871
- Description
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Red granite seated statue of Sobekemsaf I; eyes originally inlaid; cartouches on front of throne; apotropaic motif on rear; beard and nemes damaged; feet and plinth restored.
- Dimensions
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Height: 164 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
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royal
- Curator's comments
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See PM viii, p. 41 [PM IV: 30].
Published: HTBM Part 5: Plate 12
BM OP no.28 p.1, 21, 29 (subject of paper), plates 1-15
Nicholson and Shaw, Ancient Egyptian Materials and Technology (Cambridge 2000), p. 36;
N. Strudwick, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, London 2006, pp. 114-5.
The statue's plaster make-up on the nose and beard were added soon after acquisition and later removed in connection with the reorganisation of Gallery 4, the Egyptian sculpture gallery in 1981. This information was included in BM OP no. 28, p. 1.
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See Delange, RdE 56 (2005), 196, fig. 1, publication of a page of Mariette's unpublished mss notes.
This statue was evidently found by Mariette at Karnak in February 1860; it would appear that the inscription and a confused account of its appearance appeared in Mariette, Karnak, 45 (17), pl. 8m--which has led it to be called a statue of Kamose (?). Mariette's mss indicate it went into the possession of Maunier (see Acquisition).
- Location
- On display (G4/B18)
- Condition
- fair - feet and plinth restored
- Acquisition date
- 1907
- Acquisition notes
- See Davies, OP28, 1 for a description of some of the attributed history of the piece before ending up with the dealer in Cairo.
From Mariette's papers (see comments), it would appear that from Karnak it went into the collection of the French consular agent and antiquities dealer Maunier; did M sell it on when he retired to France?
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA871
- Registration number
- 1907,0608.1
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 276 (Exhibit number given in Egyptian Gallery guide 1909)
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Miscellaneous number: BS.871 (Birch Slip Number)
