ABSTRACT
At the first glance the style is seen to be that of the ancient Memphian Empire: it has evidently been detached from a statue found in one of the necropolises of Saqqarah, with the celebrated Crouching Scribe. Almost all the statues of mere private individuals come from temples or tombs. This is no longer true since the discovery of the favissa at Karnak. The Cairo Museum possesses some hundreds of statues of private individuals from the Theban temple of Amon. The great feudal lords, who all more or less aspired to possess royal rights, sometimes took the liberty of setting up a statue of themselves without the preliminary permission of Pharaoh; but in spite of these usurpations of the royal prerogative, the number is relatively small. One body was a single chance of durability for the double: twenty gave it twenty chances. However, that is the explanation of the astonishing number of statues sometimes found in one tomb.
