Kneeling Statue of Yuny - Met Museum Collection
Inventory Number: 33.2.1 New Kingdom, Ramesside, Dynasty 19, ca. 1294–1279 B.C. Location Listed: From Egypt, Middle Egypt, Asyut (Lykopolis), Tomb of Amenhotep, Necropolis Cliff tomb, Medjdeni, Khashaba excavations, 1913
Description:
Yuny, shown kneeling, is dressed in the robe, wig, and sandals of a nobleman. His eyes and eye-brows, originally made as inlays, are now lost.
This is one of two statues of Yuny found in or near the tomb-chapel of his father, the chief physician Amenhotep, in the New Kingdom necropolis of Asyut. Yuny probably commissioned the chapel after his father's death.
Although Yuny himself is not called "physician" or "chief physician" on his monuments, he probably followed his father in that occupation, as he did in most of his other offices. On this statue he has the title "overseer of Sakhmet's lay-priests," which indicates his association with the medical profession.
