Statuen von Feldmessern

The Middle Kingdom Seated Royal Statues Reused By King Ramses II

“…Lastly, King Ramses II Statuary is always propped by narrow back pillars, round-topped or ending in the form of an obelisk. 71 Based on contrasting the characteristics and criteria of King Ramses II statues with the above-mentioned analysis of the Middle Kingdom royal statues, it can be concluded that those aforementioned statues are in-fact not the original works of King Ramses II.…”

The False Door of Shepsi at the Egyptian Museum of Cairo

“…It was written on the false door of Hr n kAw from Giza from (IV -V) Dynasty 17 , while in the fifth Dynasty was inscribed on an offering table of iTi 18 at Egyptian Museum of Cairo (CG 1346). Moreover, the title imy-r sS(w) AHwt without the name of the twelfth Nome appeared in the fifth Dynasty; it was inscribed on the statue of iti (CG 26) 19 , on the Double-statue of nfr Htp and his wife in Cairo Museum (CG 89) 20 , It was written on the coffin of nn xft.k from Deshasheh 21 , on the unfinished false door of Htp (C 2) 22 , on the false door of sxm kA (C 19) 23 , and it appeared on Chamber A dwA n ra (D 61) 24 . Furthermore, it was appeared at the beginning of the sixth Dynasty in the tomb of Mereruka 25 .…”

“…In the fifth Dynasty, it was written on the west wall of the tomb of sSm nfr (I) 37 (G 4940), on the false door of pHn wi kA 38 (D. 70,LS 15), on the lintel of the door which leads to the chapel of the tomb of sxm kA 39 (G 4411), it was inscribed on the statue of iti(CG 26) 40 , on the false door of kAi 41 (D 19), and on the façade of the tomb of xw n wx:TTi 42 . In the sixth Dynasty, it was inscribed on the false door of mAA nfr 43 (D37).…”

“…Moreover, some of these titles were continued in the Middle Kingdom: such as: imy-r sS(w) AHwt n XIIe Nome (Tb nTrt) 68 , Ss qdt nTr n ptH 69 , and sS pr Hry(w) wDb(w) 70 . The style of the kilt (half-goffered kilt 71 , the so-called Galaschurz 72 ) is similar to the kilt of ra nfr (CG 19) 73 , early to the fifth Dynasty 74 ; the stripped part of the kilt is shown in the statues during the fifth Dynasty such as: ra wr 75 (CG 29) and ra Htp (CG 130) 76 The flower on the belt of the kilt was worn by men during the Old Kingdom, especially at Saqqara during in the fifth Dynasty such as: the statue of kA m nswt 77 , and the statue of ni mAat ra 78 (CG 51). Furthermore, in the six Dynasty the statues of mTTi 79 (Brooklyn Museum,50.77), itti 80 (CG 47), and kA m Hst 81 (JE 44174), had the flower in the middle of the kilt.…”

New light on S3-Rnnwtt, Ṯ3wy, ‘the royal cup bearer’ (UC69964)*

“…42 UC69964 [A-C] and Berlin 15704 [C]) were preceded by inscriptions on an adjoining brick, which might be reconstructed as Dd mdww in 'recitation', as it is on *Awy's statue Cairo CG 632, where this formula precedes his main title, 'royal cup-bearer'. 43 The provenance of brick UC69964 and Berlin 15704 The museum catalogue of the Egyptian Museum in Berlin records that Borchardt bought Berlin 15704 from Mohamed Mohasseb in 1901 and that it was found in Medinet Habu, and this could be correct. However, I suggest that Medinet Habu was not the original place from which this object came.…”