Kushite Statue
Old Kingdom, Sixth Dynasty, 2300 B.C.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art 62.200
This statue was excavated at Elkab, south of Luxor and belongs to a certain "royal acquaintance and high priest Nefershemem." Both the inscriptions and the archaeological context date it to the late old kingdom. The proportions of the limbs and highly schematic modeling of arm and leg musculature, along with the inclined face and small forehead, resemble features from the Kushite Period.
