Material : Gneiss
Acquisition : gift of Edward S. Harkness (1917)
XIIème dynastie
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Ancient Egypt
Sculpture (Statue)
Area related
Karnak (Egypte)
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This extraordinary sculpture combines a sensitive portrait of the king with the massive body of a lion. Of all Museum's notable portraits of Middle Kingdom rulers, this alone is inscribed and thus of certain attribution.
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