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i am searching for a statue of the couple. I believe her name was Manana

2006-06-26 04:36:55 · 4 answers · asked by GAIL W 1 in Arts & Humanities History

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I believe you're looking for the 18th Dynasty era statue of Khaemwaset and his wife Manana. Khaemwaset was a civil servant during the reign of Amenhotep III, bearing the titles "Captain of the Bowmen" and "Supervisor over the foreign lands in the north." His wife Manana bore the title "Singer of Bastet." The piece comes from the modern Delta city of Zagazig (probably purchased, rather than excavated there) and is likely to have originally been placed in the nearby Temple of Bubastis, given Manana's titles relating to the goddess Bastet.
The statue belongs to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, and I believe it is part of the current King Tut exhibition, now in Chicago at the Field Museum. The following site has photographs available for purchase(scroll down the page):
http://whitestarstore.com/root/search_categorie/search.asp?pagina=6¯ocategoria=1&categoria=4&show=

I suspect the exhibit catalogue for Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs has photographs as well (if I'm not totally insane and it is in fact part of the exhibition). I haven't actually looked at it myself though. It may also have been part of the Eternal Egypt exhibit - to be honest, I can't keep track. :)

Just for reference, Khaemwaset (alternate spellings include Khaemwese or Khaemweset) is a fairly common name. The most famous Khaemwaset is probably the son of Ramses II (19th Dynasty), High Priest of Ptah and briefly Crown Prince before his death. Khaemwaset is often called "the first archaeologist" as he undertook restoration of various Egyptian monuments that were ancient even in his time. He is also credited with redesigning the Serapeum at Saqqara.
There is also a son of Ramses III called Khaemweset, whose tomb in the Valley of the Kings is fairly famous.

2006-06-26 13:04:22 · answer #1 · answered by F 5 · 4 0

Nebettawy, i think

2006-06-26 11:42:31 · answer #2 · answered by Flash 2 · 0 0

sorry, never heared of that name.

2006-06-26 11:40:16 · answer #3 · answered by lomatar1186 7 · 0 0

sure..Mrs.khaemwaset

2006-06-26 11:46:45 · answer #4 · answered by big b 5 · 0 0

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