statue
- Museum number
- EA987
- Description
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Black granite lion on a plinth; incised prenomen of Khyan and epithet on the breast.
- Dimensions
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Height: 26 centimetres
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Length: 50 centimetres
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Width: 17.50 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
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Discovery first recorded by Rawlinson in a letter from Baghdad dated 5 November 1852 (BM/Middle East archives/Correspondence 1826-1860, vol. 11: PA-RO, item 4482).
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Published:
HTBM Part 5: Plate 18
Pharaonen Und Fremde Catalogue (Vienna 1994): No.125.
Im Zeichen des Mondes, Munich 1999, p.105 [41].
PM VII, p.396
BM OP 28, p.12
A. Verbovsek, Die sogenannten Hyksosmonumente : eine archäologische Standortbestimmung (Göttinger Orientforschungen. IV. Reihe, Ägypten 2006), 17-18.
E. Warmenbol (ed.), Sphinx. Les gardiens de l'Egypte, Brussels 2006, 207-8
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K. Ryholt, Title: The political situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800-1550 B.C. CNI publications 1997, p. 384 (no. 8) with bibliography.
W. Helck, Historisch-biographische Texte der 2. Zwischenzeit und neue Texte der 18. Dynastie (Kleine ägyptische Texte 1993), p. 55 [no. 74].
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
1994 7 Sep-26 Oct, Austria, Vienna, Museen der Stadt Wien, Pharanen und Fremde
2004 21 Mar-31 Oct, Hamm, Gustav Luebcke Museum, War and Peace in Ancient Egypt
2004-2005 10 Dec-17 Apr, Hamburg, Helms Museum, War and Peace in Ancient Egypt
2005 21 May-11 Sept, Mannheim, Reiss Museum, War and Peace in Ancient Egypt
2016 8 Mar-12 Jun, Cleveland, Cleveland Museum of Art, Pharoah: King of Egypt
2018 7 Jun-16 Sep, Barcelona, La Caixa, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
2018-2019 16 Oct-20 jan, Madrid, La Caixa, Pharaoh: King of Egypt
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 1876
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased for the British Museum by George Smith who saw it for sale in Baghdad during the time of his work in Mesopotamia in 1873/74.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA987
- Registration number
- 1876,1124.1
