Statue of Senenmut Holding a Sistrum

Recorded by the French Expedition to Egypt (1798-1801) in the Description de l'Egypte (1821-30), where the text says the statuette belonged to Simon de Sucy, a French army officer who died in 1799. Formerly collection of George D. Pratt; bequeathed to the Museum by Mr. Pratt, 1935 with a life interest to Mrs. Pratt. Loaned to the Museum by Mrs. Pratt, 1940 and life interest released, 1948.

Priest, Alan 1940. "Loans from the Collection of George D. Pratt." In The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 35, no.1 (December), pp. 239–240.

Scott, Nora E. 1946. Egyptian Statuettes. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, fig. 15.

Vandier, Jacques 1958. Manuel d'archéologie égyptienne: Les grandes époques: La statuaire, 3. Paris, 465, 482, 493, 505-506, pl. 65.

Hayes, William C. 1959. Scepter of Egypt II: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675-1080 B.C.). Cambridge, Mass.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 106–107, fig. 57.

Russmann, Edna R. 1973. "The Statue of Amenemope-em-hat." In Metropolitan Museum Journal, 8, p. 38, n. 16.

Metropolitan Museum of Art 1977. Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal, 1–11. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 104, n. 16.

Graefe, Erhart 1981. Untersuchungen zur Verwaltung un Geschichte der Institution der Gottesgemahlin des Amun vom Beginn des Neuen Reiches bis zur Spatzeit, 2. Ägyptologische Abhandlungen, Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, p. 141.

Dorman, Peter F. 1987. Ägyptens Aufstieg zur Weltmach, edited by Arne Eggebrecht. Mainz am Rhein: Verlag Phillipp von Zabern, no. 71, pp. 158–9.

Robins, Gay 2001. Egyptian Statues, Shire Egyptology, 26. Princes Risborough, 30, fig. 30.

2005. Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, No. 67, pp. 125-126 (C. Keller); also ref. p.300..

Selim, Hassan 2016. "A Fragment of the Hathor-Headed Naos Sistrum from a Sistrophorous Statue of Senenmut from Karnak." In La Cachette de Karnak: Nouvelles perspectives sur les decouvertes de Georges Legrain, 116, pp. 250 n5, 251.

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