A New Statue of Senenmut Identified in Manchester

Abstract

Publication of the fragmentary lower portion of a limestone seated statue, now in the Manchester Museum (acc. no. 4624), from the 1907 EEF excavations at Deir el-Bahri. Although the name of the individual is not preserved, surviving titles, phraseology and the assertion that the statue was given m ḥswt nt ḫr ḥmt-nṯr ‘as favour of the God’s Wife’ allow the piece to be identified as belonging to Senenmut, the well-known courtier of Queen Hatshepsut, and dates it to the early part of his career before Hatshepsut assumed full kingship.