Ancient Egyptian King Senusret III As Sphinx

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Your satsfaction is our guarantee! Highest Bidder Wins About US You are bidding on an Extremely Rare and Beautiful Egyptian antiques that we canâe(tm)t guarantee that we can list some one like it again! Ancient Egyptian King Senusret III As Sphinx Source Upper Egypt Period The 5 th of the 12 th dynasty. Date 1836 - 1817 B.C. Material Limestone. Measurements 13.8 x 23.8 Cm / 1 inch = 2.54 cm. Market Value $4000 - $5000 History Senusret III is probably the best attested king of the New Kingdom. He ruled the country for perhaps as long as 37 years as the 5th pharaoh of Egypt's 12th Dynasty from around 1878 until 1841 BC. He is probably also the best known of the Middle Kingdom pharaohs to the public because of his many naturalistic statues showing a man with often heavy eye-lids and lined continence. Later statues seem to portray him with increasing "world-weariness". Taken along with contemporary text, these statues seem to wish us to believe Senusret III was a king possessed of a concerned, serious and thoughtful regard for his high office. Senusret III's statuary is much loser in terms of the rigid ideological representations of earlier kings and illustrates a shift in both the function of art and a change in the ideology surrounding the king. The human qualities of the statues give a sense of age and tension, rather then read more

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