Don’t Do What I Did!: An Early Middle Kingdom Block Statue with an Inscription Added Later for “the God’s Father…, the Royal Scribe and Prophet of Osiris, … Seniu (snw-jww)”
This small Middle Kingdom sculpture is approximately datable to the reign of King Amenemhat II and is one of the earliest preserved block statues. The inscription added hundreds of years after the statue’s creation, sometime between the Ramesside Period and the Third Intermediate Period reflects the...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2015
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| In: |
Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
Year: 2015, Volume: 142, Issue: 1, Pages: 33-44 |
| Further subjects: | B
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B block statue B Usurpation B offering formula B Middle Kingdom |
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| Summary: | This small Middle Kingdom sculpture is approximately datable to the reign of King Amenemhat II and is one of the earliest preserved block statues. The inscription added hundreds of years after the statue’s creation, sometime between the Ramesside Period and the Third Intermediate Period reflects the regard in which the object was held, even in ancient times. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-713X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1515/zaes-2015-0004 |