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EGYPT / 1971 / MEDICINE / WHO / HESY RA : THE 1ST KNOWN PHYSICIAN IN HISTORY / DIAMELLITUS / APERS PAPAYRUS / MNH / VF .

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Start of the sale:
Thursday, May 9, 2013 at 1:21 PM
Item n°216356463
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3 wood panels

Archaeological excavation at the Mastaba of Hesy-Ra in November 2010

Hesy-Ra :alt. Hesire, Hesira. was an official, physician (possibly the first known in history) and scribe who lived during the Third dynasty of Egypt, served under the pharaoh Djoser, and was buried in an elaborate tomb at Saqqara. He bore titles such as Chief of Dentists and Physicians and Chief of the King´s Scribes.

Wooden panel set of Hesy-Ra

The wooden panels of Hesy-Ra are rare examples of high execution of hieroglyphs on wood. The panels are in raised bas relief and have some of the oldest forms of the Egyptian language hieroglyphs. The panels contain a hieroglyph story, (at the top) and a thematic portrayal of Hesy-Ra in different poses.

This 6 panels were 11 panels, but we just have 6 of them. These 6 panels were used as a cover for his mud brick tomb. As if they sculptured on the mud directly it would have been easily earsed and unseen, so they sculptured it on the wood. In these panels we have some important features (1) It is the first clear hieroglyphic inscription. (2) The first time to see the name of goddess Mhyt-wrt. (3) The name of god Ra is inscribed with the two letters "r" and "ˤ" not with sun disk as usually.

- goddess Mehyt-wrt is the cow of the heaven who gives birth to the sun and carries the sun from the water between its horns. These panels are carved with the figures of tomb's owner in different poses and ages. Hesire as a middle-age person (in profile) - He is depicted here with all signs of nobility ; (a)Standing with his left feet leg forward. (b)Wearing a heavy wavy wig imitating the real hair. (c) Hesire holds in his right hand the ḫrp scepter sign of power and nobility. (d)in his left hand, the scribal equipment consisting of palette with two inkwells -red & black- and a leather bag for supplies. (e)He wears a kilt with a belt on his waist . He has a tall torso and a very well represented eye-lid, mouth and a thin moustache. From the artistic point of view, they concerned with showing the best view of the body elements as the figure is shown in profile with the eye, the shoulders on full view. His face has serious facial features . His body is very well represented especially the bones and the muscles which gave us that they knew the science of anatomy. Hesire in Old-age He is seated on a lion's paws stool (block of stone) in front an offering table. He wears a curly hair wig and a long garment covering his body except for the right shoulder and arm. His arm is extended towards the offering table and the left arm is folded on his chest. The scribal equipments are depicted upon his right shoulder . The hieroglyphic inscriptions give the titles and the names of Hesire. Hesire as a young man He is standing with the two arms a long his body and the hands are free. The scribal equipments are shown on his right shoulder. He wears a short curly wig.

The panel highlighted in Kamrin's modern day book for the iconographic uses of hieroglyphs, shows a panel with Hesy-Ra standing, sekhem scepter posed horizontally at his side in his right hand. His left arm is posed forward, holding a vertical staff, and also clutched in his left hand, his scribal equipment (mixing panel, bag for color inks, reeds). Kamrin translates the 4-vertical columns of hieroglyphs as a lesson in her book:

"Elder of the qedhetep; father of Min - (="God's Father")

Fashioner of the cult image of Mehyt, king's acquaintance

Overseer of the royal scribes

Great one of the 10 of Upper Egypt–

Hesyre".

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