statuette

 

Statuette

 

 This statuette, which represents a female figure standing on a pedestal and leaning on a back pillar, arms at her side, bears many characteristics of female statuary of the 13th Dynasty: thick facial features, large ears, heavy bipartite wig that falls in curls upon the breast, disproportionate arms, hands and feet are all remarkable attributes of the production of this period. There is a hieroglyphic inscription on the back pillar, written in columns and painted white, that allows the identification of this lady. The customary funerary offering formula can be read.

 MIRGISSA 

13TH DYNASTY 

nb.t-wsh.t 

 Htp dj nswt Wsjr n k3 n nbt pr Nbt- xt mst n J3mt

 Offering that the king gives to Osiris for the Ka of the lady of the house Nebet-Userkhet, born of Lamet.

 

 INSTITUT DE PAPYROLOGIE ET D'ÉGYPTOLOGIE, UNIVERSITÉ DE LILLE III

Inventory number  E 25 618

Vercoutter, Jean, "Anthropologie, archéologie et histoire", Mirgissa III, 1976, p. 284, fig. 10,3.
Vila André, "La nécropole du plateau occidental (MX)", dans J. Vercoutter, Mirgissa II, Paris, 1975, p. 194, fig.80A,e, et p. 198.
Andreu Guillemette, Nubie, les cultures antiques du Soudan, catalogue d'exposition, Lille, 1994, p. 141-142, n°193.