Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei (Budapest, 2007)
KATALIN ANNA KÓTHAY: A Defective Statuette from the Thirteenth Dynasty and the Sculptural Production of the Late Middle Kingdom
2-3 STRIDING STATUETTE, DETAIL OF FACH. BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS STRIDING STATUETTE, I.EFT PROFILE. BUDAPEST. MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS demonstrating the telltale signs of uneven workmanship, seems nevertheless to have been modelled with more care than the body and the garment. The statuette is uninscribed. The figure is standing on a pedestal base of irregular form against a back pillar reaching to the shoulders, the left foot is advanced, with the hands stretched along the body and arms held open with palms down, an attitude expressing reverence before a deity. 1 ' The disproportionate body is dominated by the large shaven head, 10 the shape of which does not resemble typical skull representations in Middle Kingdom sculpture in the round. Shaven heads are fairly frequent with statues of the period, many of them representing men with elongated (dolichocephalic) heads; 11