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Statue of Khaneferre Sebekhotep IV Seated
Middle Kingdom
Not on view
This object is not part of The Met collection. It was in the Museum for a special exhibition and has been returned to the lender.
This well-preserved statue is inscribed for Sebekhotep IV, the younger brother of Neferhotep I, whom the statue to the left may represent. The sculptor has here combined influences from the facial features of the Twelfth Dynasty kings Senwosret III and Amenemhat III with a body whose forms have been reduced to essentials. The image thus recalls the past and represents kingship in general, rather than portraying an individual pharaoh. The king wears a particularly wide, folded cloth headdress—the royal nemes—with a uraeus (cobra) at the brow.
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