Unpublished Non-Royal Statue of Wrirn(y) at Beni-Suief Museum (No. 1629)

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the publication of a statue of nonroyal Wrirny, who served as the sun temple priest for both King Userkaf and Neferirkare during the Fifth Dynasty. He was a great high official whose Userkaf permitted him to carve two tombs, one of them at Saqqara D20 and the other at Sheikh Said No. 25. He subsequently became the overseer of both kings Userkaf and Neferirkare's solar temples. Wrirny had worked as supervisor of the king's treasury in addition to his job as priest of the solar-temple, according to some inscription on the front of his right leg. Mariette discovered the statue in tomb D20 in Saqqara necropolis and he had pointed out that Wrirny had had four statues but only two are known: one in standing stance, which the authors will publish, and the other in EG CG172. All of them are sculpted between the mid-half and end of the Fifth Dynasty. All of these statutes will aid authors in publishing and clarifying the statue style that was followed toward the end of the Fifth Dynasty by non-royal artists. The authors will publish this statue based on the style of hair wig, kilt, and facial features and at the end, it may be deduced that this statue of Wrirny dates from the end of the Fifth Dynasty, Old Kingdom (2700-2200 BC).

What appeared between the Wide Step of the Tomb Owner (Ancient Egyptian Marsh Scenes)

“…The basic hand attitude of the son in the themes displayed in Table (3): -One hand holding a leg of the father from behind, while the other hand extending beside the body holding an object or not, as in the 4 th Dynasty theme of Thetha (Fig. 43), 118 and the 6 th Dynasty theme of Henqu I (Fig. 50).…”