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Figure of Ma, High Priest of Hieraconpolis
XXth Dynasty (Margaret Murray), XXVth or XXVIth Dynasty (D.Förster)
Black steatite
Height: 17cm
Museum number: SC8
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 30
Not on display
Curatorial note
A figure of Ma, high priest of Hieraconpolis, wearing a knee-length skirt (plain, archaic), and a leopard-skin thrown over the left shoulder.
Inscription down the front: first word obliterated.
At side of support at back: 'Ma'.
Down the support: The overseer of the prophets [literally: servants of God] of the Falcon of Hieraconpolis, Ma [literally: 'He who sees'. This is the name of the man himself]
May be given things all
Good and pure to the . . . of God.
Complete interpretation: 'The overseer of the prophets of the Falcon of Hierakonpolis Ma. May there be given all things good and pure to the prophet'
Inscription down the front: first word obliterated.
At side of support at back: 'Ma'.
Down the support: The overseer of the prophets [literally: servants of God] of the Falcon of Hieraconpolis, Ma [literally: 'He who sees'. This is the name of the man himself]
May be given things all
Good and pure to the . . . of God.
Complete interpretation: 'The overseer of the prophets of the Falcon of Hierakonpolis Ma. May there be given all things good and pure to the prophet'
Provenance
Purchased from the collection of Belzoni in 1825.
Literature
D. Förster, A late period statue of an Overseer of Priests of Horus of Hierakoupolis, Göttinger Miszellen, Beiträge zur ägyptologischen Diskussion, Göttingen 1989, III, pp. 47-56, pl. I-III.
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