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The bust of a royal statue wearing a names head cloth, uraeus and beard; the brows are rendered as wide relief bands extending parallel to the cosmetic lines towards the ears. The lower half of the face has been cut back and reworked (probably in the nineteenth - early twentieth century), the rest features are not modified. For sixty years the statue was regarded as that of Senwosert III, but detailed stylistic analysis recently made by Fay proves that it represents Amenemhat II. The statue was usurped by Ramesses II whose cartouches are carved on both upper arms.

The bust of a royal statue wearing a names head cloth, uraeus and beard; the brows are rendered as wide relief bands extending parallel to the cosmetic lines towards the ears. The lower half of the face has been cut back and reworked (probably in the nineteenth - early twentieth century), the rest features are not modified. For sixty years the statue was regarded as that of Senwosert III, but detailed stylistic analysis recently made by Fay proves that it represents Amenemhat II. The statue was usurped by Ramesses II whose cartouches are carved on both upper arms.

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Hieroglyphs \|A-nb-N28Z2-<1-ra-C2\A40-msssw-2>-! \|B-nb-tA-<1-ra-wsrmAat-stpt-n-2>
Transliteration nb ha.w ra-ms-sw nb tA.wj wsr-mAa.t-ra-stp-n-ra
Translation A - Lord of Appearances Ramesses. B - Lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre-Setepenre. A - Lord of Appearances Ramesses. B - Lord of the Two Lands Usermaatre-Setepenre.

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The statue was transferred to the Hermitage in 1921 from Leningrad Institute of Literature; its previous history remains unrecorded.

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Bibliography

Piotrovskiy B.B., Bust statui Senuserta III. SEK 7 (1931), pp.26-28, pl.1-2.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.42-43, 
cat.no.5.
Fay B., A Re-used Bust of Amenemhat II in the Hermitage. GM 150 (1996), 51-63.

General Comment


Preservation: 
The lower half of the statue is lost. The left shoulder is slightly damaged, the end of the beard is broken off, the surface is scratched.

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