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Gill, David 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6970-3236 and Padgham, Joan
(2005)
'One find of capital importance':A reassessment of the statue of user from Knossos.
Annual of the British School at Athens, 100.
pp. 41-59.
ISSN 0068-2454
Abstract
A fragmentary Egyptian Middle Kingdom statuette was found in the north-west area of Central Court at Knossos in 1900. The three hieroglyphic texts show that the statue was mortuary in character, and that it was linked to a gold-caster called User of the Wadjet nome in Egypt. The User statuette is part of a wider distribution of Middle Kingdom statues from Nubia, Anatolia, and the Levant which have been found in funerary and non-funerary contexts. Theories for this distribution are reviewed including diplomatic gifts and exchanges, dedications in sanctuaries, the movement of specialised Egyptian workers, portable funerary statues and looting. Looting of tombs in the Wadjet nome followed by redistribution of finds looks like the most likely explanation for the appearance of User's statuette on Crete.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | classics,archaeology,history,visual arts and performing arts,archaeology ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/1200/1205 |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Jul 2021 00:05 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Oct 2022 02:48 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/80792 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0068245400021146 |
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