A Female Egyptian Statuette in the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid

Abstract

In this paper, a silver sculpture that entered the Egyptian collection of the Museo Arqueológico Nacional, Madrid, in 2005 is studied. It is a striding figure on a rectangular base and it is interpreted in the institution as an image of the Egyptian goddess Khereduankh and dated to the Ptolemaic period. In our study we consider that a possible attribution to the goddess Renpetneferet should not be ruled out and the results of a metallographic analysis are used to establish a more accurate chronology for the production of the sculpture.