#lykopolis

Statuette of Merer - Met Museum Collection

Inventory Number: 10.176.59 Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 10–11, ca. 1981–1802 B.C. Location Information: From Egypt; Said to be from Middle Egypt, Meir; Probably from Asyut (Lykopolis)

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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

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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 His eyes and eye-brows, originally made as inlays, are now lost.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.