Seated Official (Horaa) (Primary Title)

Unknown (Artist)

ca. 1730 BC
Egyptian
grey granite
Egypt,Middle Kingdom
Overall: 17 3/4 × 5 3/8 × 11 1/4 in. (45.09 × 13.65 × 28.58 cm)
63.29
This granite statue of a seated official bears four inscriptions—two on the sides, one on the front of the figure’s garment, and one on the top of the base. The inscriptions identify the figure as Horaa, a court official from Edfu, a site along the Nile in Upper Egypt.
XIII
Second Intermediate
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
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