Egyptian Bust of Djed-Hor-Iuf-Ankh

Egyptian Bust of Djed-Hor-Iuf-Ankh

Late Dynatic Peroiod, 26th Dynasty

Circa 664-525 BC

Basalt

The head and torso from a kneeling statue. The belt and top of the kilt visible, his bare chest showing a pronounced collar bone. He wears a rounded shoulder-length bag wig pulled tightly across the forehead. His strong oval face is idealised, with long eyebrows, cosmetic lines to the eyes, his lips pursed in a delicate smile.

The bent elbows and the subtle fold in the kilt indicate that the figure was kneeling, his hands on his thighs. The top of the head has a conical depression, created later for a secondary use. A fragment, without restoration, a break on the outer edge of the left arm, the right arm pitted.

The back pillar has two columns of inscription reading: “A Royal Offering Formula (to) Osiris Foremost of the West(?), Lord of Abydos(?): Invocation-Offerings of... and milk...[Anubis, Lord of the] Sacred [Land (i.e. cemetery)], for(?) the Venerated One before...Djed-Hor- iuf-ankh son of(?) the wab-priest(?) of Neith.”

The kneeling pose was adopted when offering salutations and prayers to the gods.

Provenance

Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), New York, USA
Private collection, Germany

Literature

Compare Mogens Jørgensen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek: Catalogue Egypt IV (Copenhagen, 2009), pp.102-103, no.31

Publications

Kunsthaus Lempertz, Cologne, Germany, Auktion 555, 24th-27th November 1976, lot 1946
Photograph in the archive of Joseph Brummer (1883-1947), held at the Metropolitan Museum since 1980

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This object is eligible for a Certificate of BADA Provenance

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