Meroë site 295: male statue

Image of the restored life-size statue of a man discovered at site 295, possibly taken at the Sudan National Museum, Khartoum. Album print labelled 'Khartum [sic] Museum' and 'Meroë 1912 95' [actually site 295].

The statue is now in the Sudan National Museum, Khartoum, (537).

The digital image is copyright of the University of Liverpool.

Another image of the statue can be found in JG/M/L/70. Published in Garstang's report to the Excavation Committee, (JG/7/1/3), labelled ‘2 statues found in 1911 [female statue also on same page] in a far corner of the baths - as restored by the Sudan Authorities. With these was found the negro-head now at Copenhagen'.

Full description of the statue can be found in Török, (1997), Meroë City, Vol.1, pp163-164, reference 295-3.