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Description : AN EGYPTIAN GREYWACKE FIGURAL
FRAGMENT OF A PRIEST
MIDDLE KINGDOM - SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD, 13TH DYNASTY, CIRCA 1786-1710 B.C.
Comprising the left side of the body, once standing, his left arm by
his side, wearing a high waisted long kilt, the figure usurped in 22nd
Dynasty and a pectoral of Ptah incised on his chest, a column of
hieroglyphic text down the front of the legs is an ‘Appeal to the Living’
and reads: ‘O living ones on earth, every Chief Director of Craftsmen,
[every] divine office, [...]’, 19.2cm high
Provenance:
Property from a notable East German private collection, formed before 1975.
The collection was subject to a staged tax proceeding by the
communist regime and its secret police (known as STASI) from 1973
to 1975 in order to transfer the collection to state possession. The
fragment of a priest was received by the Antiquities Museum of the
University of Leipzig in around 1975 or 1976. It was restituted from
there to the heir of the former collector in 2015.
Published:
R. Krauspe, Statuen und Statuetten. Katalog Ägyptischer
Sammlungen in Leipzig, 1, 1997, pp. 130-1, no. 284.
The title ‘Chief Director of Craftsmen’, was exclusive to Memphite
high-priests and is not included in ‘Appeals to the Living’, which
suggests that the statue owner himself was just such a high-priest. Of
course this fits well with the Ptah pectoral on the chest and it tends
to suggest that both the pectoral and the inscription date to the time
of the statue’s usurpation, although it can’t be ruled out that both the
original and the ultimate owner were high-priests of Memphis.
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