Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Ptahshepses [I]
Painted serving statue of a kneeling woman grinding grain. "Die Dienerin kniet auf einer schmalen, hinten rechteckigen, vorne abgerundeten Basis, vor sich Mahlstein und Reibstein...."
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- ID
- KHM_ÄS_7500
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- Department
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Mastaba of Ptahshepses [I], serdab 1 (S 1)
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- 18.5 x 7.8 x 29.6 cm.
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- Credit Line
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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- Previous Number
- KHM_7500
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- Object Ownership Information
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, late Dynasty 6
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- Excavator
- Hermann Junker, German, 1877–1962
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- Object owned by
- Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
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- Notes
- Herk: Gîza, westlicher Serdâb der Mast. des Schepsesptah (S 338/339), Grabung Junker 1913 Erwerb: 1913 durch Fundteilung1914 inventarisiert; "sämtliche unter 1914 angeführte Gegenstände sind Geschenk der kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien und kommen aus den Grabungen Junker bei den Pyramiden 1912–1913 (Inv.N°. 7498–7925)" Dias: 11.485, 11.486, 11.487; M 239–M 245, I. Asmus (Kat. Linz 1989); 11796 (1999); Ektachrome Kitlitschka 1992 und 1993; Ektachrome KHM Comp.Nr. 3632, 3633, 5178, 5511, 9162; NegNr-1: I 12723 NegNr-2: I 15368 NegNr-3: III 6090, Hubmann NegNr-4: III 17660 NegNr-5: III 23884–23888, Kitlitschka 1992
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- Remarks
- Excavated February 25, 1913.
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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J. H. BREASTED, Egyptian Servant Statues 2 (1977) 20.
A. EGGEBRECHT (Herausgeber), Das Alte Ägypten (1984) 298.
Jaroš-Deckert, Brigitte. Statuen des Alten Reiches. Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum. Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung, Lieferung 15. Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1993, pp. 36-40.
H. JUNKER, Vorläufiger Bericht über die zweite Grabung bei den Pyramiden von Gizeh vom 16. Dezember 1912 bis 24. März 1913, in: AnzWien 14 (1913) 34.
H. JUNKER, Giza VII (1944) 94,110, Taf. 20b.
Katalog "Altägyptische Denkmäler aus drei Jahrtausenden", Linz (1956) 9-10, Nr. 11.
Katalog "5000 Jahre Aegyptische Kunst", Wien (1961/62) 62, Nr. 30 und Abb. zu Nr. 30.
Katalog "Osiris, Kreuz und Halbmond", Stuttgart-Hannover (1984) 107, Nr. 84, Abb. auf S. 107.
Katalog "Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien. Führer durch die Sammlungen" (1988) 45.
Katalog "Ägypten. Götter, Gräber und die Kunst. 4000 Jahre Jenseitsglaube I", Linz (1989) 81, Nr. 49 und Abb. zu Nr. 49.
Katalog "Gott-Mensch-Pharao. Viertausend Jahre Menschenbild in der Skulptur des Alten Ägypten", Wien (1992) 140, Kat.-Nr. 35, Abb. auf S. 141.
E. KOMORZYNSKI, Altägypten. Drei Jahrtausende Kunstschaffen am Nil. Ein Blick auf Altägyptens Hohe Kunst (1952) 41, Abb. 18.
E. KOMORZYNSKI, Altägyptens Hohe Kunst im Kunsthistorischen Museum in Wien, in: Österreich in Wort und Bild 43 (1952) 47, Abb. 2.
E. KOMORZYNSKI, Das Erbe des Alten Aegypten (1965) 101,193,195, Abb. 9.
Porter & Moss III, p. 152.
H. SATZINGER, Ägyptische Kunst in Wien (1980) 18, Abb. 6.
H. SATZINGER, Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (museum, Juni 1987) Abb. auf S. 115.
W. S. SMITH, A History of Egypüan Sculpture and Painting in the Old Kingdom 2(1949) 73, 96(6).
Modern People
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- Type Excavator
- Nationality & Dates German, 1877–1962
- Remarks Egyptologist, Director of German-Austrian expedition to Giza, 1911–1929. Published 12 volumes of final excavation reports from Giza expedition. Nationality and life dates from Who was Who in Egyptology.
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Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
- Type Object owned by
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Ptahshepses [I]
Description: Limestone servant statue (woman grinding grain) from mastaba of Ptahshepses [I], serdab 1 (S 1) (quarter view proper right): Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 7500
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Ptahshepses [I]
Description: Limestone servant statue (woman grinding grain) from mastaba of Ptahshepses [I], serdab 1 (S 1) (profile proper right): Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 7500
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Ptahshepses [I]
Description: Limestone servant statue (woman grinding grain) from mastaba of Ptahshepses [I], serdab 1 (S 1) (quarter view proper right): Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 7500
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5403
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Ptahshepses [I]
Description: Limestone statues from mastaba of Ptahshepses [I], serdab 1 (S 1): Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 2140 (servant statue, baker), Egyptian Musuem, Cairo JE 4366 (seated scribed statue), Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 2141 (seated scribed statue), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 7500 (servant statue, woman grinding grain)
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5468
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Ptahshepses [I]
Description: Cemetery G 5000: mastaba of Ptahshepses [I], serdab 1 (S 1), statues (including, Hildesheim 2140, 2141, 2144, Cairo JE 43961, 43963, 43964, 43966, KHM Vienna ÄS 7499, 7500, 7508) in situ, looking E
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5469
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Ptahshepses [I]
Description: Cemetery G 5000: mastaba of Ptahshepses [I], serdab 1 (S 1), statues (including, Hildesheim 2140, 2141, 2144, Cairo JE 43961, 43963, 43964, 43966, KHM Vienna ÄS 7499, 7500, 7508) in situ, serdab 2 (S 2) (background), statue inscribed for Ptahshepses (KHM Vienna ÄS 7503) in situ, looking E
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5471
Subjects: Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: Ptahshepses [I]
Description: Cemetery G 5000: mastaba of Ptahshepses [I], serdab 1 (S 1), statues (including, Hildesheim 2140, 2141, 2144, Cairo JE 43961, 43963, 43964, 43966, KHM Vienna ÄS 7499, 7500, 7508) in situ, serdab 2 (S 2) (background left), statue inscribed for Ptahshepses (KHM Vienna ÄS 7503) in situ, looking SE
ID: KHM_AEOS_I_5481
Subjects: Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: Ptahshepses [I]
Description: Limestone statues from mastaba of Ptahshepses [I], serdab 1 (S 1): Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 2140 (accessory from servant statue, bedja loaves baking bread molds, and servant statue, baker), Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 2141 (seated scribe statue), Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 43963 (standing statue, male figure), Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 43964 (standing statue, female figure), Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 43961 (standing pair statue, two male figures), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 7499 (standing statue, male figure), Pelizaeus-Museum, Hildesheim 2144 (standing pair statue, two male figures), Egyptian Musem, Cairo JE 43966 (seated scribe statue), Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna ÄS 7500 (servant statue, woman grinding grain)
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