DOI Artikel:
Lipińska, Jadwiga: Egyptian sculptures and reliefs "Brought" by Professor Kazimierz Michałowski from Edfu
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0057
7. Błock statuę
of Hornakhfe
The National Museum
Warsaw
inv. no. 142185
(photo Z. Doliński)
is preserved (ill. 6), presents a high ąuality, carefully sculpted image of a man
seated upon a simple błock chair, with no back pillar, but with a Iow
backsupport and a rectangular base. The man, named Hori, son of Hori-
-hotep, wears sendjot, and both his hands are laid fiat upon his knees. The
Offering Formula contains an invocation to Osiris, Lord of Busiris, Great
God, Lord of Abydos, and is written on the right-hand side of the chair in five
yertical columns of beautifully carved sunk hieroglyphs. The left side contains
no inscriptions. The second objects is a block-statue (ill. 7), without a head,
a right palm and a right foot, and with a damaged right-hand side of the base
(rectangular at the front and rounded at the back). The statuę is also sculpted
in a skilful, high ąuality manner, and, like the previous one, also displays a
particularly accurate rendering of the fingernails. The preserved lower part
of the wig is wide and left plain, and the cloak smoothly envelopes the entire
body, except for the hands placed fiat upon the upper surface of the knees,
K. Michałowski, Wystawa wykopalisk egipskich Uniwersytetu Józefa Piłsudskiego. Przewodnik,
exh. cat. National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1937, p. 42. But it was included among the
objects belonging to the old collection of the National Museum, while later it was described in
the inventory book as “brought from Edfu in 1939”.
8 Inv. no. 142185, 28 cm high, 19 cm wide.
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of Hornakhfe
The National Museum
Warsaw
inv. no. 142185
(photo Z. Doliński)
is preserved (ill. 6), presents a high ąuality, carefully sculpted image of a man
seated upon a simple błock chair, with no back pillar, but with a Iow
backsupport and a rectangular base. The man, named Hori, son of Hori-
-hotep, wears sendjot, and both his hands are laid fiat upon his knees. The
Offering Formula contains an invocation to Osiris, Lord of Busiris, Great
God, Lord of Abydos, and is written on the right-hand side of the chair in five
yertical columns of beautifully carved sunk hieroglyphs. The left side contains
no inscriptions. The second objects is a block-statue (ill. 7), without a head,
a right palm and a right foot, and with a damaged right-hand side of the base
(rectangular at the front and rounded at the back). The statuę is also sculpted
in a skilful, high ąuality manner, and, like the previous one, also displays a
particularly accurate rendering of the fingernails. The preserved lower part
of the wig is wide and left plain, and the cloak smoothly envelopes the entire
body, except for the hands placed fiat upon the upper surface of the knees,
K. Michałowski, Wystawa wykopalisk egipskich Uniwersytetu Józefa Piłsudskiego. Przewodnik,
exh. cat. National Museum in Warsaw, Warsaw 1937, p. 42. But it was included among the
objects belonging to the old collection of the National Museum, while later it was described in
the inventory book as “brought from Edfu in 1939”.
8 Inv. no. 142185, 28 cm high, 19 cm wide.
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