Funerary Statuette of Kenamun
Culture: Egyptian
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1427-1400 B.C.
Medium: Wood with traces of pigment
Dimensions:
15 1/4 x 4 3/8 x 3 in. (38.7 x 11.1 x 7.6 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.429
Inscribed: One column of text written right to left, mostly damaged:
iry m […] n […] imy-ra n iHw n imn qn-imn
Made as […] for/of […] the Overseer of Cattle of Amun, Qenamun
Additional information in curatorial file [S. Schellinger 2018]
Provenance: By purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
Published References
C. C. van Siclen, III, "An Illustrated Checklist for Mummies, Myths and Magic," Varia Aegyptiaca 6 (1990) 56, no. 1.
E. Hirsch, "Die Beziehungen der ägyptischen Residenz im Neuen Reich zu den vorderasiatischen Vasallen: die Vorsteher der nördlichen Fremdländer und ihre Stellung bei Hofe," in R. Gundlach and A. Klug (eds), Der ägyptische Hof des Neuen Reiches: seine Gesellschaft und Kultur im Spannungsfeld zwischen Innen- und Außenpolitik. Akten des Internationalen Kolloquiums vom 27.-29. Mai 2002 an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universtitat Mainz (2006), 168, no. 61.
Label Text
Kenamun, an official with close ties to Amenhotep II, was commemorated with mummy-shaped figures deposited not only in his tomb at Thebes but also at what appear to be memorials to him near Giza and at Abydos.
(J. Powers, 2013)
(J. Powers, 2013)
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