Statuette of a prince

Statuette of a prince

This standing wooden figure of a prince with slender limbs is shown in an knee-length kilt with a protruding apron front. Curving ribbons hang down from the belt on either side of the apron. His head is covered by a wig with a gilded band around it and a broad sidelock hangs down from his head as far as the upper arm. The object the prince held against his chest with one or even both hands can't be ascertained owing to the fragmentary nature of the piece. The statuette was fitted into the pedestal at a later date, because the four lines of inscription on it mention the title and name of Queen Tiy. Around the pedestal is a decoration of alternating ankh, djed, and was signs.

Present location PELIZAEUS-MUSEUM [04/030] HILDESHEIM

Inventory number 0054

Dating AMENHOTEP IV/AMENOPHIS IV/NEFERKHEPERURE/AKHENATEN (not after); 18TH DYNASTY; AMENHOTEP III/AMENOPHIS III/NEBMAATRE (not before)

Archaeological Site KOM MEDINET GHURAB ?

Category FIGURINE/STATUETTE

Material WOOD; PLASTER; UNSPECIFIED

Technique SCULPTURED; STUCCO; PAINTED ON STUCCO; INLAY

Height 20.8 cm

Width 6.2 cm

Depth 15.1 cm

Translation

"[1] Princess, great of favour, Lady of the Two Shores, the Beloved, [2] the Desired, Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt great of [3] splendour, the 'Holy Jewelry' , the great royal wife Tiy, may she live."

Bibliography•Borchardt, L., Der Porträtkopf der Königin Teje (Wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 18), Leipzig 1911, S. 14-15, Abb. 14.

•Roeder, G., Die Denkmäler des Pelizaeus-Museums zu Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1921, S. 79, Abb. 25.

•Kayser, H., Die ägyptischen Altertümer im Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1973, S. 70.

•Echnaton - Nofretete - Tutanchamun, Hildesheim 1976, Kat.-Nr. 83.

•Eggebrecht, A. (Hrsg.), Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim : Die ägyptische Sammlung, Hildesheim - Mainz 1993, Abb. 54.

•Seipel, W., u.a., Ägypten : Im Reich der Pharaonen; Auf der Suche nach Schönheit und Vollkommenheit, Leoben 2001, Kat.-Nr. 28.

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