Block Statue in the Cairo Museum JE 37185 from Karnak Cachette, Excavation Number K.382 تمثال کتلة من المتحف المصري من خبيئة الکرنک , رقم الکشف (K.382)

In the Ismailia Museum[1] is a block statue No. JE 37185[2] of a certain @r, who was the son of Jy-m-ḥtp and Kr-hb. This statue has not been published previously[3], It was found by Legrain in the Karnak Cache[4] on 4/6/1904. Now, this object is stored in the magazine of Ismailia Museum in a good state of preservation, except for some shattering in the palm of the left hand with his elbow. The wide back pillar and the front of the statue keeping complete inscriptions, except the last line on the front. the present study will discuss the statue, the scenes and the inscriptions that carved on its surface.



[1]  It was transferred to Ismailia Museum from Cairo museum in 2004.


[2] I would like to express my appreciation to the Director of the Ismailia Museum for permission to publish the statue herein.


[3] This statue has not been published previously, though it was referred to by  De Meulenaere,“La prosopographie thébaine de l’époque ptolémaïque à la lumière des sources hiéroglyphiques”, in S.P. Vleeming (ed.), Hundred-gates Thebes : Acts of a colloquium on Thebes and the Theban area in the Graeco-roman period, 9-11 september 1992. Leiden 1995, p.88, n.26; Ibid,“The Cachette of Karnak”, in F. Tiradritti (éd.), Egyptian Treasures from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, Vercelli 1998, p. 341


[4] PM II, 157
التمثال رقم Je. 37185  من احد تماثيل الکتلة الغير منشورة والتي تم الکشف عنها بخبيئة الکرنک بواسطة لجران عام  1904 م. نقل التمثال إلي متحف الاسماعيلية من المتحف المصري بالقاهرة عام 2004م. التمثال في حالة جيدة من الحفظ مع فقد بعض الأجزاء من الکوع الأيسر وجزء من اليد اليسرى, حفظت النقوش بالکامل ماعدا السطر الأخير علي العباءة أعلي القدم. يقدم البحث الراهن دراسة تحليلية للتمثال, النصوص والمناظر المسجلة عليه.