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AN EGYPTIAN STATUE OF MENKAURA IN LONDON.—In Ancient Egypt, 1923, part L, Prof. Flinders Petrie describes a remarkable figure in white alabaster, acquired some time ago for University College, London. It shows a further development of the great Khofra statue. There the king's head is shielded by the falcon's wings which are spread out behind the head-dress; here the king is himself the falcon god, entirely human in front view, entirely bird-like at the back. The lower part is incomplete, but the figure was probably seated. The resemblance to the bourgeois figure of Menkaura is obvious at first sight; and the development of the protecting falcon would accord with this representing the successor of Khofra. It can scarcely be questioned that it came from one of the two temples of Menkaura.
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Research Items. Nature 112, 20–21 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112020a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112020a0