#lykopolis

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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)

Description:

The four statues 10.176.57-.60 belonged to the Scribe of Divine Offerings Merer. Their short kilts are covered with spells from the Coffin Texts. The phrase inscribed on the two middle-sized figures (.58 and .60) is typical: "Oh Osiris Merer, come with me and I will open for you your eyes that they may lead you on the ways of darkness and that they may put fear of you into the Imperishable Ones, as did Horus for his father Osiris."

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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

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 His eyes and eye-brows, originally made as inlays, are now lost.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