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Sekhemka
Statue
The
statue is 75 centimeters long represents the scribe
Sekhemka one of the supervisors in an ancient Egyptian courthouse holding
an open papyrus in one of his hands. Next to him is a smaller statue of his
wife Sitmerit hugging his leg, his son next to his other leg, and seven of his
offerings are on both sides and the back of his seat.
The Sekhemka Statue is an ancient Egyptian artifact
donated to the Northampton Museum by the Marquess of Northampton around 1870.
On 1 August 2014, the Northampton Museum had its
accreditation revoked by Arts Council England, which ruled that the sale did
not meet the accreditation standards for museums managing their collections
The
museum sold the 4,500 year-old limestone statue at an auction for GBP 16
million, allegedly to develop the museum.
The
statue of Sekhemka caused uproar in 2016, after leaving Britain to an unknown
destination that later turned out to be America, and according to British
documents, the British Museum of Northampton sold it to an unknown buyer in
July 2014.
With
the uproar that accompanied the sale of the statue and the Egyptian and British
campaigns against its sale, the buyer decided not to reveal his/her identity or
the place where the statue would be moved.
The
rare statue is of great importance to the Egyptian civilization and human
civilization in general, as it is the only known artifact that includes a
three-dimensional shape, prominent reliefs and hieroglyphs in one work from the
third millennium BC in Egypt, in addition to the scarcity of statues
representing an entire family in the Old Kingdom, according to the British
Export File.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org
www.egypttoday.com
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