Six things about Sekhemka
Excellent write-up about the history of the sale of Sekhemka –
Originally posted on Mike Pitts – Digging Deeper:
1. It’s beautiful
The best analysis of the statue is by TGH James. An Egyptologist at the British Museum, he described it in full, for the first time, in 1963, after someone had tipped him off about it (“The Northampton statue of Sekhemka”, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology…