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Hayes, whose signature is on letters in files, and the paper looks a bit older than his period of office at the Met.; possibly it is the handwriting of a curator at the time of the gift, at Kienbusch's request).\r\n\r\nOn the papyrus roll:  'Imhotep son of Ptah (?).'\r\nOn the base:  'Imhotep, endowed with life forever, son of Ptah (?).'\r\n\r\nThe latter part of both inscriptions is very uncertain.  'Son of P.' is a common epithet of Imhotep but here we may have the name of the owner or the donor of the statuette, perhaps Pedy-Hor.  \r\n\r\n\r\n","signed":null,"catalograisonne":null,"creditlinerepro":null,"restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":true,"accessionyear":null,"newaccession":0,"titles":[{"title":"Statuette of Imhotep","titletype":"Primary Title","displayorder":1}],"makers":[],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"<p>\n\tThe survival of objects associated with the creation of art offers important information on ancient modes of representation and production that were employed by Egyptian artisans, whose identities and methods have not otherwise survived in the historical record. Molds could be used to make multiple iterations of the same object, as seen with the mold for a fish amulet, while small models offered a physical example of an individual, object, or animal that could be replicated by numerous craftsmen at once. Some of these are more schematic, offering only a rough approximation of a form, while others are more precise, such as the model for the head of a pharaoh, which features the proper proportions, marked out on a grid, on the back of the head. There also survive examples of practice, where similar animals or bodies were repeatedly carved into stone as their makers perfected their technique.\n</p>\n<p>\n\t<br />\n</p>","remarks":"MED_22_ADJ-3_CLA-Day 1 Cataloguing (group chat for 2016-615, y1955-3253, y1948-53, y1949-109, y1951-73, y1042, y1948-9, y1937-359 a-b) "},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Provenance","textentryhtml":"Part of the Old Collection, given by Carl Otto von Kienbusch","remarks":null},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Special Exhibition","textentryhtml":"Imhotep, “the one who comes in peace,” was the chancellor of the Egyptian pharaoh Djoser (2668–2649 B.C.), in the Third Dynasty of the Old Kingdom. Very little is known of Imhotep as a historical figure, but in the centuries following his death he was gradually glorified as a scribe, counselor, doctor, priest, and astronomer, and eventually worshipped as a god of architecture and medicine. In art he is usually depicted seated and holding a scroll, perhaps recording a healing potion or spell.","remarks":"States of Health"}],"media":[{"id":35241,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV002818","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"\"[Notice of James H. Turnure article in Record of the Art Museum]\", <EM>Annual egyptological bibliography</EM> (1952).","citation":"\"[Notice of James H. Turnure article in Record of the Art Museum]\", <EM>Annual egyptological bibliography</EM> (1952)., no. 2603","date":1952,"id":4052,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/1607404"},{"boilertext":"James Harvey Turnure, \"A statuette of Imhotep\",<EM> Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University</EM> 11, no. 2 (1952): p.25-28. 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