Limestone servant statue of woman grinding or milling grain; female figure wearing bag wig with lappet at back and short sheath dress, leaning forward to grind grain on stone while resting on her knees and toes; little paint remains.
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- ID
- HM_6-19766
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- Department
- Hearst Museum, Berkeley
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- Classification
- Sculpture
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- Findspot
- Mastaba G 1213, in serdab
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- Material
- Limestone
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- Dimensions
- 18.3 x 12.2 x 34.6 cm
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- Credit Line
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, Hearst Egyptian Expedition
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- Object Ownership Information
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
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- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5 or Dynasty 6
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- Date of Register Entry
- 1903–1904
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- Object owned by
- Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
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- Site Name Western Cemetery
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Capel, Anne K., and Glenn Markoe, eds. Mistress of the House, Mistress of Heaven: Women in Ancient Egypt. New York: Hudson Hills Press in association with Cincinnati Art Museum, 1996, p. 91, cat. 28a.
Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 387-388, cat. 136.
Fazzini, Richard A. Images for Eternity: Egyptian Art from Berkeley and Brooklyn. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1975, p. 37, cat. 27.
Lutz, Henry F. Egyptian Statues and Statuettes in the Museum of Anthropology of the University of California. University of California Publications. Egyptian Archaeology 5. Leipzig: J.C. Hinrichs, 1930, p. 28, pl. 41b.
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. 58.
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Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
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