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KATALIN ANNA KÓTHAY: A Defective Statuette from the Thirteenth Dynasty and the Sculptural Production of the Late Middle Kingdom
In v. no. 51.330. Today preserved in the Veszprém County Archives: Archives of the Zirc-Pilis-Pásztö and Szentgotthárd Abbey of the Cistercian Order: Archives of Members of the Order (VemL XII. 2/i): archival materials of Abbey Konstantin Horváth: archival materials of Bonifác Platz (9/b). I would like to express my thanks to Hajnalka Vörös and Balázs Somfai who made Bonifác Platz's archival materials available for me to study. J. Vandier, Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne III. Les grandes époques. La statuaire, Paris 1958, 271-72. Copy of the manuscript catalogue (see n. 2.), no. 23. At the second Egyptian Exhibition of the Museum of Fine Arts the statuette was displayed among pieces of Middle Kingdom statuary, though the Guide of the Exhibition does not mention it individually, only referring to these pieces collectively as "black stone statuettes, simple, rectilinear figures, typical examples of Middle Kingdom small statuary", E. Varga and V. Wessetzky, Egyiptomi kiállítás. Vezető, Budapest 1961, 17. The statuary of the Thirteenth Dynasty has not yet been thoroughly studied. The two fundamental older works on Middle Kingdom statuary (H. G. Evers, Staat aus dem Stein. Denkmäler, Geschichte und Bedeutung der Ägyptischen Elastik wirrend des Mittleren Reichs, Munich 1929; and Vandier 1958) do not provide systematic analyses of Thirteenth Dynasty sculpture in the round, and many late Middle Kingdom statues are assigned alternatively to the end of the Twelfth Dynasty or to the Thirteenth Dynasty. However, recent research has made it possible to date late Middle Kingdom statues with more certainty. The most important contributions are: B. V. Bothmer, "Bemused and Benign: A Fragmentary Head of Dynasty XIII in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum Annual 10 (1968-1969), 77-86 (= Egyptian Art: Selected Writings of Bernard V. Bothmer, ed. M. E. Cody, New York 2004, 199-208); H. Junker, "Die Provinzialkunst des Mittleren Reiches in Elephantine", in L. Habachi, Elephantine IV. The Sanctuary of Heqaib, Mainz 1985, 117-39, especially 131-37; as well as references throughout Egyptological literature to Bernard Bothmer's unpublished lectures and remarks on Thirteenth Dynasty statuary: see for example M. Hill, Royal Bronze Statuary from Ancient Egypt with Special Attention to the Kneeling Pose, Leiden and Boston 2004, 12-14 with nn. 26, 27, 33; and A. Verbovsek, u Als Gunsterweis des Königs in den 'Temple gegeben Private Templestatuen des Alten und Mittleren Reiches, Wiesbaden 2004, 182. n. 2, 186. n. 1, 196. n. 1, 351. n. 1, 429. n. 1, 458. n. 1, 462. n. 1, 464. n. I, 466. n. 1, 474. n. 1, 527. n. 1. I would like to express my thanks to György Szakmány (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Department of Petrology and Geochemistry) and Klára Köthay (Eötvös Loránd University Budapest, Natural History Museum) for determining the material of the statuette. Due to desert crust formation on
