ABSTRACT

In its present condition it is just the mutilated bust of a king with the uraeus and the double crown on the brow; the broken object that leans against the left side is the end of a staff of office, terminated with a rams head, the emblem of Khnoum or Theban Amon. When a Pharaoh ascended the throne, the sculptors of the city where he then was, Memphis, Thebes, Tanis, or another, hastened to make a certain number of copies of his portrait. Thus in the Boulaq Museum the authors have several series of royal heads. A proceeding from one exclusion to another, we come to restrict the choice to three princes, Touatankhamonou, Sanakht, and Harmhabi. The statue was not destroyed by the hand of man as in the case with a certain number of the monuments at Karnak. The author attributes the statue of which Mariette found the remains to Harmhabi, the Armais of the Greeks.