Fragmentary limestone servant statue
Limestone servant [statue], figure of man squatting with one knee up, slaughtering or skinning animal with knife; in four fragments, incomplete.
Illustration: Yes
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_27-5-8
- Alternate IDs
- HUMFA_27-5-8; 27-5-8
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Entry Date
- 05/04/1927
- Title
- Fragmentary limestone servant statue
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 19.5 cm Width: 9.5 cm Length: 19 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 7530-7540: G 7530, room a, debris
- Bibliography
- Breasted, James Henry. Egyptian Servant Statues. The Bollingen Series 13. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948, p. 35, no. 1, pl. 32d. Dunham, Dows, and William Kelly Simpson. The Mastaba of Queen Mersyankh III (G 7530-7540). Giza Mastabas 1. Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 1974, p. 23, pl. 18c-d. 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. 199.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
