Fragmentary inscribed limestone servant statue

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

ID

EMC_JE_72139
Department

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification

Sculpture
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)
Material

Limestone
Dimensions

Height: 25.5 cm Width: 26 cm Length: 19 cm
Credit Line

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Cairo Special Register number

EMC_SR_2/15244
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_38-4-2
Object Ownership Information

In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_72139)
Period

Old Kingdom
Date of Register Entry

04/06/1938, 04/08/1938, 04/09/1938
Object owned by

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Owner

Ankhmaes (in G 2088)

Nefretinet (in G 2088)

G 2088
- Site Name Western Cemetery

Roth, Ann Macy. "The Meaning of Menial Labor: 'Servant Statues' in Old Kingdom Serdabs." <I>Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt </I>39 (2002), pp. 103-121.
- Date: 2002

A History of the Giza Necropolis III, Unpublished 1942 Manuscript, Appendix L: Cemetery G 2000: Part 2: G 2088–G 2246 , page 135
- ID: EMC_JE_72139

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

Ankhmaes (in G 2088)
- 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.
Nefretinet (in G 2088)
- 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.