Statue - 40-19-3 | Collections

Object Number:	40-19-3
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Ptolemaic
Provenience:	Egypt Dendereh
Locus:	Temple of Hathor
Period:	Ptolemaic Period Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos
Date Made:	80-50 BCE
Early Date:	-80
Late Date:	-50
Section:	Egyptian
Materials:	Andesite
Iconography:	Man Strategos Korax
Inscription Language:	Hieroglyphic
Height:	127 cm
Width:	45.7 cm
Depth:	33 cm
Credit Line:	Exchange with Kevorkian, 1940

Description

Standing Headless statue of a man wearing a tight fringed garment and holding 3 papyrus blossoms in left hand. Head and feet missing. Three vertical lines of hieroglyphs on back and 4 short ones on the side of the support. The statue was previously misidentified as Hathor because of the figure's prominent breasts. It depicts the strategos (general?), Korax and this statue type is very common from the last 4th c. BC to Roman times. While the name of Korax has been erased, the titles and form match another statue where the name is preserved.

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Upper Egyptian Gallery (1983 - 1991)	View Objects in Exhibition
Upper Egyptian Gallery (1996 - 2006)	View Objects in Exhibition
Upper Egyptian Gallery (1991 - 1996)	View Objects in Exhibition
Upper Egyptian Gallery (2006)	View Objects in Exhibition
Searching for Ancient Egypt: (1997 - 1997)	View Objects in Exhibition

Bibliography:

[Book] Quick, Jennifer. 2004. Magnificent Objects from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.. Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ed. 1st. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 96, fig. 85	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Book] Silverman, David P. 1997. Searching for Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture and Artifacts from the University of Pennsylvania Museum.. Cornell University Press. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: 150-51	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Ranke, Hermann. 1950. "A Guide to the Egyptian Collections". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 15. no. 2-3. pg. 21-109 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 57, fig. 33	View Objects related to this Actual Citation
[Article] Ranke, Hermann. 1940. "A Statue of the Goddess Hathor". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 8. no. 4. pg. 10-12 Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: p. 11, pl. III	View Objects related to this Actual Citation

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