.jpg?w=1)
.jpg?w=1)
Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
M. Hill, Royal Bronze Statuary From Ancient Egypt, With Special Attention to the Kneeling Pose, Leiden, 2004, p. 207, no. 174.
This is a classic image of a pharaoh offering to a god. He sits gracefully on his knees, wearing a kilt, broad collar and the white crown of Upper Egypt fronted by a uraeus, holding two nw pots in his outstretched hands. For a similar bronze kneeling figure of the 22nd Dynasty Pharaoh Pimay, see British Museum inv. no. EA32747 (Eternal Egypt, Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 215-218, no. 114). M. Hill, Eternal Egypt, writes "Although the kneeling pose for small royal figures in bronze can be traced from the late Middle kingdom onward...a significantly greater number of such bronzes appear to have been produced in the later Third Intermediate Period, suggesting a new, more focused interest in the king's subordinate relationship to the gods, perhaps expressive of a new religious tenor and surely a prelude to developments in the Kushite Period".
The hieroglyph in the form of an outstretched arm holding a nw pot translates as "to offer." What these pots actually held is not known but the nw pot is used as a hieroglyph in words signifying both water and ointment. For related examples see figs 12 and 55 in M. Hill, Gift for the Gods, Images from Egyptian Temples, New York, 2007.
M. Hill, Royal Bronze Statuary From Ancient Egypt, With Special Attention to the Kneeling Pose, Leiden, 2004, p. 207, no. 174.
This is a classic image of a pharaoh offering to a god. He sits gracefully on his knees, wearing a kilt, broad collar and the white crown of Upper Egypt fronted by a uraeus, holding two nw pots in his outstretched hands. For a similar bronze kneeling figure of the 22nd Dynasty Pharaoh Pimay, see British Museum inv. no. EA32747 (Eternal Egypt, Masterworks of Ancient Art from the British Museum, London, 2001, p. 215-218, no. 114). M. Hill, Eternal Egypt, writes "Although the kneeling pose for small royal figures in bronze can be traced from the late Middle kingdom onward...a significantly greater number of such bronzes appear to have been produced in the later Third Intermediate Period, suggesting a new, more focused interest in the king's subordinate relationship to the gods, perhaps expressive of a new religious tenor and surely a prelude to developments in the Kushite Period".
The hieroglyph in the form of an outstretched arm holding a nw pot translates as "to offer." What these pots actually held is not known but the nw pot is used as a hieroglyph in words signifying both water and ointment. For related examples see figs 12 and 55 in M. Hill, Gift for the Gods, Images from Egyptian Temples, New York, 2007.