A Fragment from the Cairo Statue of Khasekhemwy

Abstract

A corner fragment of the greywacke statue of Khasekhemwy from Hierakonpolis in the Cairo Museum has been discovered in the School of Archaeology and Oriental Studies, University of Liverpool. It derives from the excavations of John Garstang and Harold Jones in the town and temple site of Nekhen in 1905-6. The scratched designs on the fragment are discussed and its subject matter compared to the scene on the base of the limestone statue of Khasekhemwy, also from Hierakonpolis, in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.