Unidad documental simple Petrie MSS 5.4.04 - Page 04

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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.17 (From drawing over a squeeze) Sculpture on first statue of Min. Stags head on a pole. Two pteroceras shells.
-K.11-12. (From a squeeze, Reversed.) Sculpture on second statue of Min, representing a garland? [variant of R22/R23] on a pole decorated with a feather, two saws of saw fish, and & pteroceras shells. Probably these were the decorations of the fetish pole of Min. [The same squeeze in opposite lighting]
-K.18 (From drawing over a squeeze) The sculptures being on a rounded surface cannot be photographed directly. Hence they are done here by squeezes & drawings.

Copyright Griffith Institute, University of Oxford

-K.17: see Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Koptos (1896) (OEB 147092), plate III.1.
-K.12: Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Koptos (1896) (OEB 147092), plate IV.bottom left (reversed) [similar, but not same].
-K.18: see Petrie, W. M. Flinders, Koptos (1896) (OEB 147092), plate III.2.