Senwosret III Statue at BM

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Senwosret III Statue at BM

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Quartzite sphinx of Senusret III, 12th dynasty, Middle Kingdom. During the 15th dynasty an official dedicated it to the hyksos ruler Apophis (the barely visible inscription on the right upper foreleg). British Museum EA 1849, London, Room 4.
[ref:Dorothea Arnold, Image and identity: Egypt's eastern neighbours, east Delta people and the Hyksos, in The Second Intermediate Period. Current research, future prospects, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta, 192, ed. Marcel Marée, 2010, p. 208; pl. 33-34].

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01/08/2018
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