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KATALIN ANNA KÓTHAY: A Defective Statuette from the Thirteenth Dynasty and the Sculptural Production of the Late Middle Kingdom

See a finely carved statue head in the Liverpool Museum, inv. no. 1973.2.325; photographs of the head are presented in the electronic database GEM (Global Egyptian Museum): www.globalegyptianmuseum.org/record.aspx?id=3269; several heads in the Walters Art Gallery, nos. 71.509, 22.385, 22.394, 22.221: Steindorff 1946, pl. 11, nos. 46, 62-63; and the anhydrite head in the Thalassic Collection: Lacovara and Teasley Trope 2001, 9. See n. 2. W. K. Simpson, "A Statuette of a Devotee of Seth", Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 62 (1976) 41; J. Bourriau, Pharaohs and Mortals: Egyptian Art in the Middle Kingdom, Cambridge 1988, 24; and Hill 2004, 12, referring to Bernard Bothmer's remarks on Thirteenth Dynasty statuary. The Budapest statuette is not unique in regard to the clumsy treatment of the legs and the base. See a statuette dated to the Seventeenth Dvnasty, even smaller than the Budapest piece, in the Louvre (E 10525: Delange 1987, 126-127), which shows a figure with an extremely thin right leg with both feet slightly turned inwards. See for example CG 408, 431, 460, 461, 466, 468, 476, 480, 482, 483, 543: L. Borchardt, Statuen und Statuetten von Königen und Privatleuten, Catalogue Générale des antiquitées égyptiennes du Musée du Caire. Nos. 1-1294, Berlin 1925; Delange 1987, A 122, A 123, A 124, N 870, E 109974, K 11176 bis, K 11196, E 11216, E 17332, E 20171, E 27253; I labachi 1985, nos. 29, 40, 42, 45, 50, 54, 63, 65, 72, 107; W. Seipel, Gott, Mensch, Pharao. Viertausend Jahre Menschbild in der Skulptur des Alten Ägypten, Wien 1992, 188-89, nos. 57-61; H. Kayser, Die ägyptischen Altertümer in Roemer-Pelizeus-Museum in Hildesheim, Hildesheim 1973, fig. 37; R. A. Fazzini et ab, Ancient Egyptian Art in the Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum 1989, no. 24; S. Pernigotti, La Statuaria egiziana nel Museo Civico Archeologico di Bologna, Bologna 1980, 30, 31, no. 4, pis. 30-31. See for example the statuette of Nenju, Flildesheim, Roemer-Pelizaeus Museum 84: Kayser 1973, fig. 38; Seipel 1992, 218-19, no. 74; the statuette of Renu, Leipzig, Museum der Universität 1023: R. Krauspe, Statuen und Statuetten {Katalog Ägyptischer Sammlungen in Leipzig 1), Mainz 1997, 62-63, no. 114, pl. 54; the statuette of Dedunub, British Museum EA 58080: Bourriau 1988, 60, no. 47; and the statuette of Mesehi, Royal Museum of Scotland 1952.158: Bourriau 1988, 65-66, no. 51. Louvre E 11196: Delange 1987, 138 -39; B. V. Bothmer, "Block Statues of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom I: Ipepy's Funerary Monument", Brooklyn Museum Bulletin 20 (1959), 11-26 (= Egyptian Art: Selected Writings of Bernard V. Bothmer, ed. M. E. Cody, New York 2004, 83-102); perhaps also Louvre E 11216, E 13577, and E 20171: Delange 1987, 140-41, 164-65, 185. It must be admitted, however, that this device seems to be general with squatting or seated statues. Vandier 1958, 250 and 257.