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Limestone standing statue of Nakhtka (?), painted.

Details

  • ID
    GEM_14575
  • Department
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Classification
    Sculpture
  • Findspot
    G 8220 (?), serdab
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    48.5 x 13.4 x 17.0 cm; 8680 g
  • Credit Line
    Grand Egyptian Museum
  • Journal d'Entree number
    EMC_JE_87801
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/14756
  • Period
    Old Kingdom
  • Excavator
    Selim Hassan (Bey), Egyptian, 1886–1961
  • Owner
    Nakhtka (G 8220)
  • Notes
    Discovered 1936. JE and SR list this as statue of Nakhtka, with provenance listed as "serdab 31" (location uncertain, but presumably in the tomb of Nakhtka, G 8220). However, Hassan (Giza 7 p. 91) lists it as being found in the serdab of G 8230. It is unclear which provenance is correct, and since the statue is uninscribed its attribution to Nakhtka is uncertain. There is also a substantial discrepancy in the measurements given; it is described in the JE as being 48.5 x 17 cm, while Hassan measures it as 90 x 40 cm.
  • Remarks
    RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Selim Hassan; Nakhtka (G 8220); ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_87801; EMC_SR_2.14756; RELATED SITE(S): G 8220

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 8220

    • Site Name Central Field (Hassan)

Full Bibliography

  • Porter-Moss, p. 240; Hassan, Selim. Excavations at Gîza 7: 1935-1936, p. 91 “first statuette”, pl. 42; Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G275; Ghalioungui in BIFAO 62 (1964), pl. viii [A], p. 64.

People 2

Ancient People

  • Nakhtka (G 8220)

    • Type Owner
    • Remarks Owner of G 8220. Two false doors inscribed for Nakhtka, identified as [rx nswt wab nswt Hm-nTr sAHwra sHD sSw Snwt sHD sSw a nswt Snwt] royal acquaintance, royal wab-priest, priest of Sahure, inspector of scribes of the granary, inspector of royal document scribes of the granary. Also appears in chapel relief; in situ in G 8220.

Modern People

  • Selim Hassan (Bey)

    • Type Excavator
    • Nationality & Dates Egyptian, 1886–1961
    • Remarks Egyptologist; Sub Director General. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology. (1886-1961) Egyptian Egyptologist; born Mit-Nagi, 15 April 1886, he studied at the Higher Teacher's College, Cairo under Kamal (q.v.); in 1912 he became a teacher and in 1921 obtained a post in the Egyptian Museum as assistant keeper; he studied in Paris 1923-7 at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes; he was the first Egyptian to be appointed as a Professor of Egyptology in the Universitv of Cairo, 1928 - 36; he was later made Deputy Director of the Egyptian Antiquities Service responsible for the care of all monuments in the Nile valley, 1936-39; Ph.D. Vienna University, 1935; stimulated by the archaeological work of P. E. Newberry (q.v.) and Junker (q.v.)he began an active career in excavations with the clearance of some of the Giza mastabas in 1929; the excavations carried on by him in this necropolis continued until 1939 by which time a great deal of digging had been achieved, published in 10 parts; he also cleared the Sphinx and its temple, for the first time completely digging out the great amphitheatre around it and ensuring that it would not be buried by send again so easily; he wrote a study on this work and on the temple of Amenhotep II here; in addition the so-called Fourth Pyramid or the palace-façade tomb of Queen Khent-kawes of the Fourth Dynasty was investigated and also the funerary town of the priests associated with it; he later worked on the Unas causeway at Saqqara and at the valley temple of this king, discovering some of the mastabas in this area and two great subterranean tombs dated to the Second Dynasty; his final excavations at Giza were carried out on the east and south faces of the Great Pyramid and at the mortuary temple of King Khufu, 1938-9; he also took part in the campaign to save the monments of Nubia, and wrote a report on this subject; he published about 53 books and articles on Egyptological subjects in English, French, and Arabic, Hymnes religieux du Moyen Empire, 1928; Le Poème dit de Pentaour et Le rapport officiel sur la bataiILe de Qadesh , 1929; Excavations at Giza, 10 pts., 1929-60; The Sphinx. Its History in the Light of recent Excavations, 1949; Report on the Monunents of Nubia,1955Excavations at Saqqara 1937-8, 3 vols., 1975; in Arabic Literature of Ancient Egpt, 2 vols.; Ancient Egypt from Prehistoric Times to the Age of Rameses 11, 6 vols.; he died in Giza, 30 Sept. 1961. AfO 20 (1963), 310 (H. Brunner); Archaeology 14, no, 4 (1961, 293; ASAE 58 (1964), 61- 84 (bibl.) (Dia Abou-Ghazi); Orientalia 31 (1962), 271; Goettinger Miszellen 76 (1984), 78-80; Reid, JAOS 105 (1985), 237, 241-44.