Statuette of Senetmut

Statuette of Senetmut

This statuette in basalt was found in a tomb of the necropolis at Abydos. Dated to the Middle Kingdom, it depicts a woman sitting on a cubic seat. The hieroglyphic inscriptions engraved on the lower part of the long dress of the woman and on the flanks and back side of the seat indicate that the person was called Senetmut.

UPPER EGYPT: GOVERNORATE OF SOHAG: ABYDOS

FORMULA Htp-di-nsw.t

J. Garstang, El Arábah, Londres 1901, pl. III

L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1923, 33 nº 109

Porter and Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings V 66

J. Vandier, Manuel d'archéol

ogie égyptienne, Paris 1958, III 239 n. 9, 271 n. 5

Inventory number E.4252

KMKG - MRAH

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