AN EGYPTIAN BASALT FIGURE OF KNEELING PRIEST Middle...
AN EGYPTIAN BASALT FIGURE OF KNEELING PRIEST Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, Circa 1700 B.C. Shown kneeling upright on an integral base, resting both arms on his legs and wearing a long kilt wrapped above the waist and folded right over left beneath his chest, an incised border running around the top edge of the kilt, a single column of hieroglyphs running down the centre of his torso and over his knees, 12cm high, Literature: A very similar statue of the royal sealer and high steward, Gebu, from the temple of Amun at Karnak is now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen (inv. no. ÆIN 0027). Provenance: Private collection, Switzerland, acquired mid 1960s, and thence by descent.
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AN EGYPTIAN BASALT FIGURE OF KNEELING PRIEST Middle Kingdom, 12th Dynasty, Circa 1700 B.C. Shown kneeling upright on an integral base, resting both arms on his legs and wearing a long kilt wrapped above the waist and folded right over left beneath his chest, an incised border running around the top edge of the kilt, a single column of hieroglyphs running down the centre of his torso and over his knees, 12cm high, Literature: A very similar statue of the royal sealer and high steward, Gebu, from the temple of Amun at Karnak is now in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek in Copenhagen (inv. no. ÆIN 0027). Provenance: Private collection, Switzerland, acquired mid 1960s, and thence by descent.
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