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Object register entry:
Field number: 40-3-15
Field number: 40-3-15
Entry date(s): 03/29/1940
Object owner details: In the collection of: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (949.42)
Limestone seated statue of Senankhwer
Findspot: Western Cemetery, G 2475, serdab, in situ facing E
Limestone
Expedition Measurements: Height: 37 cm
Width: max: 14.5 cm
Thickness: max: 25 cm
Description: Painted white limestone statuette, seated male figure; inscribed on base to left of left foot [xntj-S pr-aA sb] (palace attendant of the Great Hosue, flutist), on base to right of right foot [rx nswt sn-anx-wr] (royal acquaintance Senankhwer), full wig, short [kilt], left hand open palm down on left thigh, right hand fist (thumb lost) on right knee, broad necklace (painted), top of seat and front side of seat and top of base yellow, other three sides of seat and back support ....
Illustration: No
Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Selected Published References:
Needler, W. in Bulletin of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology 18 (March, 1952), pp. 9-12, figs. 4, 5. Needler, W. in The Coinnoisseur 166 (1967), p. 97, fig. 5. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 95.
Needler, W. in Bulletin of the Royal Ontario Museum of Archaeology 18 (March, 1952), pp. 9-12, figs. 4, 5. Needler, W. in The Coinnoisseur 166 (1967), p. 97, fig. 5. Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 95.
Remarks: Last part of statement unfinished, original entry ends short (cut off).
Problems/Questions:
description re colors reads as if description was not completed; ROM accession number verified; re name Senankhsemu, more likely Senankhwer