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Descrizione : MID-DYNASTY XVIII/EARLY DYNASTY XIX, CIRCA 1450 B.C. Wearing elaborate long black painted wig, comprising bunches of hair, plaited into ringlets at each end, which cascade over her shoulders, held in place by a fillet which is tied at the back with a double lotus flower falling down as three ringlets, she wears a red painted collar and rosette on her right breast, the back column with traces of hieroglyphs reads as follows: "A-boon-which-the-king-gives that... Mistress of Heaven might give...", trace of a hand holding her under her right shoulder, mounted 7.1/8 in. (18 cm.) high PROVENANCE Kalebdjian Collection (cat. no. 52). EXHIBITION Le Don du Nil, pp. 55-56, pls. 179a-d, no. 179. NOTES The above bust comes from a group statue, with her husband probably sitting on her right; parallels for similar statues can be found in the Petrie Collection, University College, London, see A. Page, Egyptian Sculpture, Warminster, 1976, pp. 70-71, no. 75; a dyad of Hatshepsut and Senynafer in the Louvre Museum, Paris (E 27161), see The Louvre Egyptian Antiquities, Paris, 1990, col. pl. on p. 59; also a dyad of the Priest of Amun, Kinebu, and his wife, the Songstress of Amun, Isis, from the Temple of Amun at Thebes, now in the Kestner Museum, Hannover (Inv. no. 2945).
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