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Limestone servant statue: dwarf with jars

Small painted white limestone statue of dwarf with five jars; hair, eyebrows, eyelids, tops and insides of jars, and base painted black, body of dwarf red-brown, jars yellow; broken in three pieces and mended. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: ca 1:1

Details

  • ID
    EMC_JE_72144
  • Department
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Classification
    Sculpture
  • Findspot
    G 7715 a
  • Material
    Limestone
  • Dimensions
    Height 4.9 cm; Width 4.9 cm; Thickness 2.1 cm
  • Credit Line
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo
  • Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
    HUMFA_37-5-69
  • Cairo Special Register number
    EMC_SR_2/393
  • Object Ownership Information
    In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_72144)
  • Date of Register Entry
    05/20/1937
  • Object owned by
    Egyptian Museum, Cairo

Tombs and Monuments 1

  • G 7715

    • Site Name Eastern Cemetery

Unpublished Documents 1

Full Bibliography

  • Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 203.

Institutions 1