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29 - STATUETTE DE DIGNITAIRE
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STATUETTE DE DIGNITAIRE En basalte, figuré debout, les pieds joints, les bras serrés le long du corps, ses mains reposant sur son long pagne. Le torse dénudé. La tête est aujourd'hui manquante. À l'arrière, pilier dorsal inscrit d'une colonne hiéroglyphique. Traduction : « Offrande que donne le roi à Osiris, Maître de Busiris, le grand dieu, Maître (d’Abydos), afin qu’il donne une offrande alimentaire consistant en pain, bière… » - Courtesy of J.Billen H. : 23,5 cm. Égypte, Moyen Empire, XIIe-XIIIe dynastie, c. 1991-1650 av. J.-C. Provenance Anciennement avec la Fondation Rassla, Zurich A Middle Kingdom basalt statuette of a dignitary. Represented standing frontally, the arms straight and the hands placed on the kilt. Legs joined. The figure wears a long kilt with a projecting apron, secured by a knot at the waist. The head is now missing. On the back, back pillar with a hieroglyphic column: "An offering which the king gives to Osiris, Lord of Busiris, the great god, Lord (of Abydos), that he may give an invocation-offering consisting of bread, beer..." — Courtesy of J. Billen Dynasty 12-13, c. 1991-1650 BCE
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