Bulletin du Musée National de Varsovie (42.2001)

6. Lower half
of fhe statuę
of seated man named Hori
The National Museum
Warsaw
inv. no. 141275
(photo Z. Doliński)

A couple, slightly larger than the first one, is represented seated upon a
lionlegged chair (three legs are visible), facing to the right. The figures are fiat
and without details. The małe figurę extends his near hand towards a table
with dense, roughly indicated loaves upon it. Under the table a smali figurę
of a bearer holding a fowl by the neck and wings is depicted. In front of him
is a roughly carved inscription: “His son, Ankhi”. Unfortunately the name was
so popular, that without further data the identity of his father cannot be
discerned. Behind the chair another figurę of a woman is sketched, bearing
birds in both her hands, which hang at her sides. The sketch is so rough, that
it resembles a caricature.

Without the heads of both couples, represented on a higher, missing course
of wali blocks, the relief has little value for the museum's exhibition, and one
wonders why Michałowski brought it to Warsaw. It is probable that he was
attracted by the unusual repetition of the scene.

It is possible, that two headless, limestone statues “brought from Edfu”
were indeed purchased there. One,' of which only the lower part of the body

Inv. no 141275. The preserved part is 23 cm high and 13 cm wide. Possibly this statuę was men-
tioned in a guide booklet, printed in 1937, as the “New Kingdom Seated Statuę of a Man”:

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