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From the date of the surrounding pottery one would tend to date them into the late Ptolemaic/early Roman period, when - as we know - artists studied older tombs. However, the two ostraka might even go back to the Twentysixth Dynasty, when Nespekashuty built his own tomb into the court of tomb no. 509 (c. 675 Be). The artist would not have drawn this design had such a capital existed only in his imagination; for we know that such sketches were the first step in the process of creating stone monuments such as columns, statues, and sphinxes.

126). For facial features of statuary of Amenhotep III, see e. StrauB-Seeber, 'Kriterien zur Erkennung der koniglichen Rundplastik Amenophis III', in L. M. ), The Art of Amenhotep III: Art Historical Analysis (Cleveland, 1990), 9-13. 3 In Khartoum, no. 14408, 1. Leclant, 'Le sarcophage de Ouabset de la necropole de Soleb', Kush 11 (1963), 141-53; M. Schiff Giorgini, C. Robichon, and 1. Leclant, Soleb, II: Les necropoles (Florence, 1971), 125-32. 4 A Varille, Inscriptions concernant l'architecte Amenhotep fils de Hapou (Institut franyais d'archeologie orientale.

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