DYAD DEPICTING SEATED SIDE BY SIDE THE GOVERNOR AND DIRECTOR OF PRIESTS NEFERTEM-HOTEP AND ANOTHER MALE FIGURE

EGYPT, MIDDLE KINGDOM, 12TH DYNASTY, c. 1850 BC
ANORTHOSITIC GNEISS
H: 22,3 CM

Provenance: Collection Kenneth John Hewett (1919-1994), United Kingdom

 

Published: Malek, J., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings VIII. Objects of Provenance not known. Part 1. Royal Statues, Private Statues (Predynastic to Dynasty XVII), Oxford, 1999, p. 332; Fay, B., L’Art égyptien du Moyen Empire (première partie) in Egypte, Afrique et Orient 30, 2003, pp.47-8 et (deuxième partie) in Egypte, Afrique et Orient 31, 2003, p. 14; Connor, S., Etre et paraître. Statues royales et privées de la fin du Moyen Empire et de la Deuxième Période intermédiaire (1850-1550 av. J.-C.) in Middle Kingdom Studies 10, London, 2020, pp. 176, 186, 205, 219, 293.