Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 1213
Limestone servant statue of woman straining mash for beer; female figure leaning forward and pressing hands into vessel, wearing sheath dress and close shaven hair, dress painted red, skin yellow, vessel red, and base painted black, negative space between arms has not been removed.
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- ID
- HM_6-19811
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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
- 23 x 9.3 x 30.3 cm (9 1/16 x 3 11/16 x 11 15/16 in)
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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, pp. 91-92, cat. 28b.
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, pp. 27-28, pl. 41a.
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 (identified as male figure).
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Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
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