Statue Of Roy

Roy is shown squatting ,wearing a long pleated robe with his arms folded on top of his knees

. His head is represented in typical Ramesside fashion, with a somewhat oval face and an elaborate shoulder ""length double wig. Below his arms is a large sistrum, a musical instrument sacred to the goddess Hathor. Doubtless he is presenting this to the goddess Mut, who along with Amun-Re, is named in the inscription on statue"s back pillar.

Tow columns of inscription express similar wishes that these deities permit Roy"s statues and name to remain forever in the temple. The object is of the type known as a block statue,which originated as a much simpler from (see EA48, pages 134-5) but was then elaborated in the later Eighteenth and early Nineteenth Dynasties to indicate more of the features and clothing of the deceased. One result of these elaborations is that the large area for text seen on EA48 was no longer available, and inscriptions had to be added else where (as on the back pillar here, a feature not evident in earlier examples).

Roy, or Roma-Roy to give the longer version of his name (not on this statue), was the high priest of Amun in the later reign of Ramesses II, and may have survived into the time of his successor, Merenptah. He probably succeeded his brother Bakenkhonsu as high priest, for he is shown in the latter"s tomb as the second priest of Amun. He was able to commission several statues of himself, four of which were found in Karnak(including this one) and one near his tomb on the west Bank at Thebes. He also usurped tow statues of the vizier Mentuhotep from the early Twelfth Dynasty, and is known from other fragments and inscriptions. Roy was buried on the west bank at Thebes in the area known as Dra Abul Naga, where there is a large and prominent group of tomb of Ramesside high priests; his tomb has the number tt283.

The Thebes high priest of Amun commanded great power in the city, since the cult of his deity was one of the main reasons for the importance of Thebes. He oversaw a large bureaucracy and was in charge of a considerable amount of wealth. At the end of the new Kingdom the high priest effectively ran Upper Egypt, and some of them even used the title of king .

The lower part of the statue is restored, and the Upper fragment was discovered by Napoleon"s expedition to Egypt during work in the temple of Mut at Karnak ; it came to the British Museum after the Treaty of Alexandria in 1801.

New kingdom nineteenth dynasty 1220BC

From karnak temple of mut

Gift of king george III in 1802

Height of the original fragment 88cm as restored the hight 113cm

EA 81

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