statue
- Museum number
- EA1022
- Description
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Granite statue of a Kamose: the statuette, mounted on a pedestal, is in a squatting position, with right leg crossed under the body and left bent sharply at the knee. The figure wears a short skirt and a garment with sleeves, and over the left shoulder is slung a scribe's outfit, with palette in front and water-bowl and reed-holder behind. A partly-opened roll of papyrus, held in the left hand, rests on the left knee and extends over the lap, passing under the right hand to the side of the skirt. On the papyrus is an inscription incised in five horizontal lines, beginning at the end nearest to the roll. The head and neck are missing and the left hand, which holds the papyrus roll, is badly mutilated. Small abrasions have occurred all over the figure, and the text on the roll is much weathered.
- Dimensions
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Height: 44 centimetres (max)
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Width: 24 centimetres
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Depth: 32 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
B. Porter & R. Moss, 'Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings' VII (Oxford: Clarendon Press), p.141;
E. A. W. Budge, ‘The Egyptian Sûdân : its history and monuments’ I (London, 1907), facing p. 578;
A. Wiedemann, ‘Recueil de Travaux relatifs à la philology et à ‘archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes' 17 (Paris, 1895), pp. 6-7.
Randall-Maciver & Woolley, Buhen (Philadelphia 1911), 108.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- incomplete - head lost
- Acquisition date
- 1887
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA1022
- Registration number
- 1887,1205.2
