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The statue represents a king wearing a head-cloth, royal beard and uraeus. Unfortunately the surface is weathered, the facial features are smoothed and only the very beginning of the titulary is preserved on the back pillar, which makes attribution problematic. However, both stylistic features and the material, reddish sandstone, are characteristic of the Ramesside period.

The statue represents a king wearing a head-cloth, royal beard and uraeus. Unfortunately the surface is weathered, the facial features are smoothed and only the very beginning of the titulary is preserved on the back pillar, which makes attribution problematic. However, both stylistic features and the material, reddish sandstone, are characteristic of the Ramesside period.

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Hieroglyphs (M22:t)*(L2:t)-nb-N17:N17-//-!
Transliteration n(j)-sw.t bj.t nb tA.wj ---
Translation King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Lord of the Two Lands - - - King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Lord of the Two Lands - - -

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1908 - purchased by Likhatchev in the shop of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
1918 - with the collection of Likhatchev donated to the Archaeological Institute, Petrograd.
1925 - with the collection of Likhatchev transferred to the Museum of Palaeography (since 1935 Museum of Books, Documents and Scripts) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR,
1938 - with the collection of Likhatchev transferred to the Institute of History, Leningrad.
1938 - with the collection of Likhatchev transferred to the Hermitage.

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Bibliography

Perepelkin Yu.Ya., Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Institut Knigi, dokumenta Pis'ma. Opisaniye vystavki "Pis'mennost' drevnego mira i Rannego Srednevekov'ya. Moscow - Leningrad, 1936, p.22, no.XXV.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, p.67, cat.no.63, tab.I,63.

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Preservation: 
The nose tip, mouth, chin, beard and uraeus are damaged. The surface is badly weathered.

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