Pair statues are a technology for not coming apart. Yuny was a priest and scribe in Asyut. Renenutet shares the bench. Their clothes and wigs are court-fashion of the late Eighteenth or Nineteenth Dynasty. The tenderness is formal, which does not make it fake.
A scribe who is also a husband is the domestic Thoth. He writes for a temple and sits for a wife. The statue argues that both jobs should survive death.
Hands meeting in stone are easy to skip. Do not. Egyptian pair statues are among the oldest images of chosen company. A universe of solo exploration still needs that picture.
In the colonnade they are a wide object, two bodies as one furniture. The Temple of Thoth is not only a bachelor god of letters. It is also a place where records include other people.
