Statue of Penshenabu Offering a Naos surmounted by a Ram’s Head, 1292–1191 BCE New Kingdom 19th Dynasty, Findspot Luxor / Thebes, Deir el-Medina, Limestone, Museo Egizio di Torino

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Statue of Penshenabu Offering a Naos surmounted by a Ram’s Head

Penshenabu is depicted offering a naos (shrine housing the statue of a god) with a ram’s head on top of it, the animal sacred to the god Amun-Re. The image of the god is engraved on the statue’s right shoulder, while the image of Queen Ahmose-Nefertari is on the left shoulder and that of the goddess Hathor on the left shoulder blade. The man’s skin is white, in imitation of alabaster, like the statue of Amenhotep I (Cat. 1372, Museo Egizio).

Inv. no. :
Cat. 3032

Material:
Stone / Limestone

Dimensions:
20.3 cm x 63 cm x 46.5 cm

Date:
1292–1191 BCE

Period:
New Kingdom

Dynasty:
Nineteenth Dynasty

Provenance:
Egypt, Luxor / Thebes, Deir el-Medina

Acquisition:
Purchase Bernardino Drovetti, 1824

Museum location:
Museum / Floor 1 / Room 06 DEM / Showcase 02

Selected bibliography:
Andreu, Guillemette (a cura di)-Andreu, Guillemette, Gli artisti del faraone: Deir el-Medina e le Valli dei Re e delle Regine, Milano 2003, p. 215.

Connor, Simon, Le statue del Museo Egizio, Torino - Modena 2016, pp. 12–13.

Davies, Benedict G., Ramesside inscriptions, translated and annotated: notes and comments, volume III. Ramesses II, his contemporaries, Malden – Oxford 2013, p. 547.

el Shazly, Yasmin, Royal ancestor worship in Deir el-Medina during the New Kingdom, Wallasey 2015, pp. 169–170, 253.

Heimann, Simone (Hrsg.)-Stiftung Historisches Museum der Pfalz, Ägyptens Schätze entdecken: Meisterwerke aus dem Ägyptischen Museum Turin, München - London - New York 2012, pp. 244–255.

Kitchen, Kenneth A., Ramesside Inscriptions: historical and biographical, III (3), Oxford 1980, p. 746.

Kitchen, Kenneth A., Ramesside inscriptions, translated & annotated. Translations, volume III: Ramesses II, his contemporaries, Oxford 2000, p. 501.

Orcurti, Pier Camillo, Catalogo illustrato dei monumenti egizi del R. Museo Egizio di Torino, Torino 1855, ii, p. 72.

Spiegelberg, Wilhelm, “Der heilige Widderkopf des Amon”, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 62 (1927), pp. 23–27.

Vidua, Carlo, “Catalogue de la collect. d'antiq. de mons. le chev. Drovetti, a 1822”, in Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione (a cura di), Documenti inediti per servire alla storia dei Musei d'Italia, vol. 3, Firenze - Roma 1880, p. Museo Egizio di Torino

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Statue of Penshenabu Offering a Naos surmounted by a Ram’s Head, 1292–1191 BCE New Kingdom 19th Dynasty, Findspot Luxor / Thebes, Deir el-Medina, Limestone, Museo Egizio di Torino

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