Handsome Couple

Upper part of painted limestone double statuette of man and woman, generally identified as a husband and wife, probably seated as in most double statuettes of this date, with seven vertical columns of hieroglyphs inscribed on back, with funerary prayers for the owners, names not preserved. Set in modern plaster base; noses and areas of loss in inscription also filled with plaster and painted in modern times, date of restoration not recorded. From the collection of Amelia Edwards.
18th Dynasty.