| Period: | | Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 30 |
| Dating: | | 380 BC–343 BC |
| Origin: | | Egypt, Lower Egypt, Mendes |
| Material: | | Limestone |
| Physical: | | 31.4cm. (12.3 in.) - 13250 g. (467.7 oz.) |
| Catalog: | | STO.XL.00220 |
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This limestone cube statue portrays Nefer-Khaaw, revered noble, scribe of the treasury in Mendes, one of the greatest cities of the Delta in Lower Egypt, Dynasty 30.
The owner’s name and title are inscribed in front, at the base of the statue. From right to left, the hieroglyphs read: “The scribe of the treasury, the son Nefer-Khaaw, the noble.”
The recital is inscribed in three vertical registers, from right to left. The hieroglyphs read: “Apis, the master of Mendes, the living oxen god, the beget of Horus, offers water, breath and vessels of beer to the scribe of treasury, thy son, the beloved, Nfr-Khaaw, the revered noble, true of voice.”
“Mendes was a significant site not only in the Predynastic and Early Dynastic eras, but during most of the later transformational epochs of Egyptian antiquity as well. It was already a significant settlement during the initial formation of the Egyptian state in the late fourth millennium BC, and it increased in size and importance during the maturation of the Egyptian state in the Old and Middle Kingdoms. During the complex imperial dynamics of the New Kingdom and Late period it became one of the greatest Delta cities” (Bard 1999:500).
Bibliography (for this item)
Aubert, Jacques-F., and Liliane Aubert
1974 Statuettes égyptiennes: chaouabtis, ouchebtis. Librairie d’Amerique et d’ Orient, Paris, France.
Bard, Kathryn A., and Steven B. Shubert
1999 Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. Routledge, London, United Kingdom. (500)
Khalil, Hassan M.
1976 Preliminary Studies on the Sanusret Collection. Manuscript, Musée l’Egypte et le Monde Antique, Monaco-Ville, Monaco. ((I) 29-33)
Posener, Georges, Serge Sauneron, and Jean Yoyotte
1970 Dictionnaire de la civilisation Egyptienne. 2nd edition. Fernand Hazan, Paris, France. (262)
Ziegler, Christiane
1997 The Louvre: Egyptian Antiquities (Reprint of 1990 edition). Edition Scala, Paris, France. (69)
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