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Nadpis
Date(s)
- 9 December 1893-21 February 1894 (Creation)
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1 page (4 photographs)
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-Qift (Koptos; Coptos).
-Three colossal statues of Min, fragmentary, ends of girdle incised with figures of animals, etc., Predynastic, found beneath Ptolemaic pavement, one in Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 30770 bis, and two in Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, 1894/105.
Captions:
-K.6. Second statue of Min. [thong girdle ↑] [↑ sculptures see K.11.18]
-K.7 Sculpture on second statue. see K.11.18.
-K.10 Head of third statue of Min front view showing ears. No face.
-K.8. Head of third statue of Min side view showing ear & whisker. [back] [front]
Further notes:
-The statues of Min are in limestone, & were originally about 13 ft (4 metres high).
-The head found near the legs K.5 is a rudely rounded mass with large ears, & ribbed whiskers. The front is quite featureless, & roughly flattened with five hollows [K.10] pitted in it probably to give better attachment to a wooden mask. In painting of the XVIII dyn. Min has black face.
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