Egyptian bust of Djed-Hor-Iuf-Ankh, Late Dynastic Period, 26th Dynasty, c.664-525 BC
Basalt
Height: 27cm
10471 EL
£ 65,000
Further images
Upper section of a male kneeling statue, the belt and top of the kilt visible, his bare chest has raised nipples and a pronounced collar bone. He wears a rounded...
Upper section of a male kneeling statue, the belt and top of the kilt visible, his bare chest has raised nipples and a pronounced collar bone. He wears a rounded shoulder-length bag wig pulled tightly across the forehead. His strong oval face is idealised, with long eyebrows, cosmetic lines to the eyes, his lips pursed in a delicate smile. The bent elbows and the subtle fold in the kilt indicate that the figure was kneeling with his hands on his thighs. The back pillar has two columns of inscription reading:
“A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West, Lord of Abydos: Invocation-Offerings of... and milk...[Anubis, Lord of the] Sacred [Land (i.e. cemetery)], for the Venerated One before...Djed-Hor- iuf-ankh son of the wab-priest of Neith.”
The top of the head has a large conical depression, created later for a secondary use. A fragment, without restoration, a break on the outer edge of the left arm, the right arm pitted.
The kneeling pose was adopted when offering salutations and prayers to the gods.
“A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West, Lord of Abydos: Invocation-Offerings of... and milk...[Anubis, Lord of the] Sacred [Land (i.e. cemetery)], for the Venerated One before...Djed-Hor- iuf-ankh son of the wab-priest of Neith.”
The top of the head has a large conical depression, created later for a secondary use. A fragment, without restoration, a break on the outer edge of the left arm, the right arm pitted.
The kneeling pose was adopted when offering salutations and prayers to the gods.
Provenance
The Brummer Gallery Records, 1916-1947, Album of mounted photographs of African, Egyptian, Asian Sculpture, p.3; photograph donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 1980, through Ella Baché Brummer, wife of Ernest BrummerKunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Germany, Auktion 555, 24th-27th November 1976
Private collection, Germany
Christie's, New York, Antiquities, 5th June 2014
Literature
Compare Mogens Jørgensen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: Catalogue Egypt IV (Copenhagen, 2009), pp.102-103, no.31Publications
The Brummer Gallery Records, Album of mounted photographs of African, Egyptian, Asian Sculpture, p.3Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Germany, Auktion 555, 24th-27th November 1976, lot 1946
Christie's, New York, Antiquities, 5th June 2014, no.14
