Red granite figure of Sobkemsaf I

Seventeenth Dynasty, about 1630 BC

This is one of the few royal statues surviving from the Seventeenth Dynasty. The king's name is inscribed on the throne-front, and an apotropaic motif with figures of the goffess Ipi decorates the rear. There are dowel-holes in the eyebrows from the fixing of applied overlay and for the securing of inlays in the eye-sockets. This pharaoh performed "extensive restoration works at the temple of Month[u] at Madamud."

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