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Description: | One column of hieroglyphs on either side of lower legs, extending onto top of statue base: 'An offering which the king gives, and Osiris foremost [of the westerners], lord of Abydos, that he may give an invocation-offering of bread, beer, meat, fish, and [every good] thing, for the soul of the lady of the house Iah-ib, whom the lady of the house Meket, justified, bore.'
Limestone statue of a seated woman, preserved from the waist down. The woman wears a tight-fitting, ankle-length dress and has both hands flat on her knees.
Excavators' mark in ink on back: Buhen, 1963-4, K10-17, 1670. Found in sand under paving in the sanctuary of the South Temple at Buhen, a fortress town on the border between Egypt and Sudan. The South Temple as built in early Dynasty 18, so the statue must predate that period (c. 1500-1475 BC). This statue's location in Manchester was omitted from the distribution list published in W.B. Emery, H.S. Smith, and A. Millard, The Fortress of Buhen: The Archaeological Report. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1979. | Source: | Manchester Museum | Identifier: | mm.emu.ecatalogue.humanities.332308 | Go to resource |
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