Limestone standing pair statue
Limestone standing pair statue attributed to Senenu and his wife (unnamed); man on proper left and woman on proper right, male figure standing with left leg advanced, hands clenched at sides, wearing short wig, broadcollar, and kilt, skin painted red, female figure standing feet together with proper left arm around his shoulders, wearing shoulder length wig with natural hairline showing, sheath dress, and broadcollar (only traces remain) and bracelets and anklets, skin painted yellow, back pillar and negative space painted black, uninscribed.
Details
- ID
- HM_6-19775
- Alternate IDs
- 6-19775; HM_6-19775
- Department
- Hearst Museum, Berkeley
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Entry Date
- 1903–1904
- Title
- Limestone standing pair statue
- Medium
- Limestone, paint
- Dimensions
- 73 cm (28 3/4 in)
- Credit Line
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Hearst Egyptian Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 1206, in walled-up offering chapel (reused as serdab)
- Bibliography
- Bolshakov, Andrey. "anx-wD.s: St. Petersburg-Cambridge." Göttinger Miszellen 188 (2002), p. 40, note 18. Fazzini, Richard A. Images for Eternity: Egyptian Art from Berkeley and Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1975, pp. 33-34, cat. 24. Fischer, Henry G. "An Elusive Shape within the Fisted Hands of Egyptian Statues." Metropolitan Museum Journal 10 (1975), p. 13. Lutz, Henry F. Egyptian Tomb Steles and Offering Stones of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of California. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology 4. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1927, 12. Lutz, Henry F. Egyptian Statues and Statuettes in the Museum of Anthropology of the University of California. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology 5. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1930, pp. 22-24, figs. 21-25, pls. 34a, b, 35a. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 58. Thomas, Nancy, ed. The American Discovery of Ancient Egypt. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1995, pp. 133-134, cat. 45.
