British Museum 2011: block statue of Teti 1
Red quartzite block statue of Teti, Viceroy of Kush: the statue is finely carved, and the features of the squatting body and the plinth are modelled, in contrast with more schematically modelled styles of block statue.
Teti is dressed in a leopard skin, whose tail falls over the plinth beside his right foot, and wears sandals. Around his neck he wears a pendant formed of the 'ankh' sign and the hetep ('peace') sign. On his upper arm is inscribed the cartouche of his sovereign, Tuthmosis III; this does not represent a tattoo, but is a graphic declaration of loyalty first attested in this period. He holds a lotus flower in his left hand.
Emblematic hieroglyphs are inscribed on his hands: on the left hand are signs showing the red crown of Lower Egypt and the moon, and on the right hand signs showing the white crown of Upper Egypt and the sun. Two horizontal lines and nine vertical lines of Middle Egyptian hieroglyphic text are carved at the front, and one horizontal line and three vertical lines on the back pillar; all read right to left.
As the genealogy on this statue makes clear, in this period the title 'King's Son' was awarded to people who were not children of the king. The statue was placed in a chapel in the temple enclosure at Karnak.
Height: 60 centimetres
Width: 29 centimetres
Depth: 39,5 centimetres
Weight: 82 kilograms
1475BC (circa). 18th Dynasty.
from: www.britishmuseum.org
British Museum 2011: block statue of Teti 1
Red quartzite block statue of Teti, Viceroy of Kush: the statue is finely carved, and the features of the squatting body and the plinth are modelled, in contrast with more schematically modelled styles of block statue.
Teti is dressed in a leopard skin, whose tail falls over the plinth beside his right foot, and wears sandals. Around his neck he wears a pendant formed of the 'ankh' sign and the hetep ('peace') sign. On his upper arm is inscribed the cartouche of his sovereign, Tuthmosis III; this does not represent a tattoo, but is a graphic declaration of loyalty first attested in this period. He holds a lotus flower in his left hand.
Emblematic hieroglyphs are inscribed on his hands: on the left hand are signs showing the red crown of Lower Egypt and the moon, and on the right hand signs showing the white crown of Upper Egypt and the sun. Two horizontal lines and nine vertical lines of Middle Egyptian hieroglyphic text are carved at the front, and one horizontal line and three vertical lines on the back pillar; all read right to left.
As the genealogy on this statue makes clear, in this period the title 'King's Son' was awarded to people who were not children of the king. The statue was placed in a chapel in the temple enclosure at Karnak.
Height: 60 centimetres
Width: 29 centimetres
Depth: 39,5 centimetres
Weight: 82 kilograms
1475BC (circa). 18th Dynasty.
from: www.britishmuseum.org