Digital Giza | Limestone servant statue

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2420

Limestone servant statue, male figure squatting cleaning inside of wine jar with right hand, jar held with left hand between legs; body painted brown, [kilt] and simple wig (short hair) white, base white; part of left arm, left corner and lower right corner of base missing, left knee and left forearm damaged and ready to break off. Illustration: Yes

ID

EMC_JE_67570
Department

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification

Sculpture
Findspot

Pit G 2420 D (head found first in pit, main part lower down, and fragment of left shoulder next day)
Material

Limestone
Dimensions

Height: 31 cm Width: base: 11.5 cm Length: base: 23 cm
Credit Line

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_36-5-30
Cairo Special Register number

EMC_SR_2/14737
Object Ownership Information

In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_67570)
Period

Old Kingdom
Date of Register Entry

05/15/1936, 05/16/1936
Object owned by

Egyptian Museum, Cairo