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KATALIN ANNA KÓTHAY: A Defective Statuette from the Thirteenth Dynasty and the Sculptural Production of the Late Middle Kingdom
the stone surface, the study made by an optical microscope was not enough to determine the accurate composition and texture of the stone, but small fresh parts make it highly probable that it is either basalt or dolerite. 8 The statuette displayed at the Permanent Exhibition of the Egyptian Collection was inserted into a wooden plinth which could not be removed when it was examined, as described in the exhibition catalogue Pharaonic Renaissance: Archaism and Historical Value in Old Egyptian Art, ed. F. Tiradritti, Ljubljana 2008, no. 18. Therefore, its exact height could not be measured at that time and the information given in the manuscript catalogue of Bonifác Platz (18 cm) was accepted (for the manuscript catalogue see n. 2.). Since then the statuette had been detached from the plinth and the thickness of the base turned out to be uneven, the maximum height of the whole statuette being 17.5 cm. 9 For the meaning of gestures in private statuary see E. Bernhauer, "Zur Typologie rundplastischer Menschendarstellungen am Beispiel der altägyptischen Privatplastik", Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 34 (2006), 33-49, for the Middle Kingdom 37, and table on p. 44. 10 Its measurements are the following: height 3.1 cm, width 2.6 cm, depth 3 cm. For the use of the expression "shaven" in the study of Egyptian statuary see B. V. Bothmer and Fl. De Meulenaere, "The Brooklyn Statuette of Hor, Son of Pawen", in Egyptological Studies in Honor of Richard A. Parker Presented on the Occasion of His 18 th Birthday December 10, 1983, ed. L. Lesko, Hanover and London 1986, 10-11. 11 G. Steindorff, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore 1946, 31; Bothmer and De Meulenaere 1986, 11; R. E. Freed in The Collector's Eye: Masterpieces of Egyptian Art from the Thalassic Collection, eds. P. Lacovara and B. Teasley Trope, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta 2001, 9; HOI 2004, 14. 12 See for example Berlin 10115: Ägyptisches Museum. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, ed. K.-H. Priese, Mainz 1991, 62-63, no. 40; Louvre E 3932 and E 18796 bis: E. Delange, Catalogue des statues égyptiennes du Moyen Empire 2060 - 1560 avant J.-C, Paris 1987, 118-119 and 182-183. 13 See for example Habachi 1985, no. 72, pi. 169. 14 See for example ibid., nos. 69 and 71, pis. 162-63 and 166-67; and a statue head in the British Museum, EA 64350: E. R. Russmann, Eternal Egypt. Masterzvorks of Ancient Art from, the British Museum, London 2001, 117-18, no. 42. 15 I. Nagy, Guide to the Egyptian Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest 1999, 31, fig. 15. 16 According to recent research the bulk of the faces resembling those of the so-called "realistic" portraits of the two great kings of the late Twelfth Dynasty rather come from the Thirteenth Dynasty: Russmann 2001, 36; Hill 2004, 13 with n. 27 referring to Bernard Bothmer's lectures.
