MAKE A MEME View Large Image Egyptian - Male Bust From a Group Statue - Walters 22111.jpg This fragment was once part of a double statue and would have probably shown the man seated with his wife to his left His costume is the same as that worn by the royal scribe Nahu ...
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Keywords: Egyptian - Male Bust From a Group Statue - Walters 22111.jpg This fragment was once part of a double statue and would have probably shown the man seated with his wife to his left His costume is the same as that worn by the royal scribe Nahu also shown here The three stylized flesh folds on the official's upper abdomen were a conventionalized method of showing relatively advanced age and prosperity The remaining hieroglyphic text on the back mentions Ptah and Sokar gods associated with ancient Memphis suggesting that this sculpture came from the official's tomb at Saqqara which was the primary necropolis or cemetery of Memphis ca 1300 1290 BC New Kingdom carved granodiorite cm 43 5 37 5 18 accession number 22 111 39167 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1929 Inscription place of origin Thebes present-day Luxor Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian statues in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review
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