Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2088
Limestone servant statue, group of two female figures on one base, "a" squatting sifting and "b" standing bent fowards grinding grain in mortar-hole in base with long conical pestle; colors partly preserved, base and full wig of "a" black, band around hair red, bodies except for long white tunic yellow, small necklace and tips of breasts black, pestle red-brown, names written on top of base, a) horizontally in front of sieve [GLYPHS] Nefretinet facing right, b) vertically in front outside mortar hole along edge of base [GLYPHS] Ankhmaes; both figures incomplete, a) face damaged, nose broken off, right knee, right lower arm and hand, and left hand missing, b) upper part of body above thighs missing. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: ca 1:3
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- ID
- EMC_JE_72139
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Mastaba G 2088, chapel (torso of "a"), room c (torso of "b" and base and fragment of arm of "a"), and serdab 1 (pestle)
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- Height 25.5 cm; Width 26 cm; Length 19 cm
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_2/15244
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_38-4-2
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- Object Ownership Information
- In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_72139)
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- Period
- Old Kingdom
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- Date of Register Entry
- 04/06/1938, 04/08/1938, 04/09/1938
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- Owner
- Ankhmaes (in G 2088)
- Nefretinet (in G 2088)
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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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. 69.
Roth, Ann Macy. A Cemetery of Palace Attendants. Giza Mastabas 6. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995, p. 81, fig. 32, p. 90, pl. 32c.
Roth, Ann Macy. "The Meaning of Menial Labor: 'Servant Statues' in Old Kingdom Serdabs." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002), p. 111, fig. 2.
Ancient People
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- Type Owner
- Remarks Secondary false door inscribed for Ankhmaes, identified as [Hm-kA] ka-priest; in situ in G 2088, north of entrance to inner chapel. Fragmentary (incomplete) inscribed limestone servant statue (38-4-2 = Cairo JE 72139); two female figures on one base, Nefretinet squatting (proprer right) and Ankhmaes standing (proper left); found in G 2088.
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- Type Owner
- Remarks Fragmentary (incomplete) inscribed limestone servant statue (38-4-2 = Cairo JE 72139); two female figures on one base, Nefretinet squatting (proprer right) and Ankhmaes standing (proper left); found in G 2088.
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- Type Object owned by
ID: HUMFA_B8987_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2088
Description: Incomplete limestone servant statue (incorporating two female figures) inscribed for Nefretinet and Ankhmaes from G 2088 (profile proper right): 38-4-2 (= Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 72139)
ID: HUMFA_B8988_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2088
Description: Incomplete limestone servant statue (incorporating two female figures) inscribed for Nefretinet and Ankhmaes from G 2088 (quarter view proper right): 38-4-2 (= Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 72139)
ID: HUMFA_B8989_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2088
Description: Incomplete limestone servant statue (incorporating two female figures) inscribed for Nefretinet and Ankhmaes from G 2088 (front): 38-4-2 (= Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 72139)
ID: HUMFA_B8990_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2088
Description: Incomplete limestone servant statue (incorporating two female figures) inscribed for Nefretinet and Ankhmaes from G 2088 (quarter view proper left): 38-4-2 (= Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 72139)
ID: HUMFA_B8991_NS
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 2088
Description: Incomplete limestone servant statue (incorporating two female figures) inscribed for Nefretinet and Ankhmaes from G 2088 (profile proper left): 38-4-2 (= Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 72139)
ID: HUMFA_B8954_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2088
Description: Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2088, Kakhent and Pehenptah, outside serdab 2 in court (= room c), fragments of servant and other statues (38-4-1 = MFA 38.2146, 38-4-2 = Cairo JE 72139, 38-4-3 = MFA 38.2147, 38-4-7 = MFA 38.2149, 38-4-8, 38-4-9 = MFA 38.2150, 38-4-11 = MFA 38.2151, 38-4-17 = MFA 38.2155, 38-4-19 = MFA 38.2157) in situ, looking E
ID: HUMFA_C14149_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2088
Description: Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2088, Kakhent and Pehenptah, outside serdab 2 in court (= room c), fragments of servant and other statues (38-4-1 = MFA 38.2146, 38-4-2 = Cairo JE 72139, 38-4-3 = MFA 38.2147, 38-4-7 = MFA 38.2149, 38-4-8, 38-4-9 = MFA 38.2150, 38-4-11 = MFA 38.2151, 38-4-17 = MFA 38.2155, 38-4-19 = MFA 38.2157) in situ, looking W
ID: HUMFA_A7982_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2088
Description: Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2088, Kakhent and Pehenptah, outside serdab 2 in court (= room c), fragments of servant and other statues (38-4-1 = MFA 38.2146, 38-4-2 = Cairo JE 72139, 38-4-3 = MFA 38.2147, 38-4-7 = MFA 38.2149, 38-4-8, 38-4-9 = MFA 38.2150, 38-4-11 = MFA 38.2151, 38-4-17 = MFA 38.2155, 38-4-19 = MFA 38.2157) in situ, looking E
ID: HUMFA_A7983_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2088
Description: Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2088, Kakhent and Pehenptah, outside serdab 2 in court (= room c), fragments of servant and other statues (38-4-1 = MFA 38.2146, 38-4-2 = Cairo JE 72139, 38-4-3 = MFA 38.2147, 38-4-7 = MFA 38.2149, 38-4-8, 38-4-9 = MFA 38.2150, 38-4-11 = MFA 38.2151, 38-4-17 = MFA 38.2155, 38-4-19 = MFA 38.2157) in situ, looking WNW
ID: HUMFA_A7981_NS
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2088
Description: Cemetery G 2000 (area NE of G 2000 = Lepsius 23): G 2088, Kakhent and Pehenptah, outside serdab 2 in court (= room c), fragments of servant and other statues (38-4-1 = MFA 38.2146, 38-4-2 = Cairo JE 72139, 38-4-3 = MFA 38.2147, 38-4-7 = MFA 38.2149, 38-4-8, 38-4-9 = MFA 38.2150, 38-4-11 = MFA 38.2151, 38-4-17 = MFA 38.2155, 38-4-19 = MFA 38.2157) in situ, looking W
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