Upper part of limestone servant statue
Upper part of limestone servant statue, female figure grinding grain; wears full black wig with red (?) cap on top, blue dog collar and bead necklace with blue pendant hanging down between breasts, white tunic below breasts without shoulder straps, flesh painted yellow, [irises], eyebrows and eyelashs black; in five pieces, incomplete, lower arms and hands, greater part of legs, and base missing.
Illustration: Yes.
Illustration scale: ca 1:3
Details
- ID
- HUMFA_38-4-4
- Alternate IDs
- 38-4-4; HUMFA_38-4-4
- Department
- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Entry Date
- April 1938
- Title
- Upper part of limestone servant statue
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 17.2 cm Width: across shoulders: 11.4 cm Length: 20.6 cm
- Credit Line
- Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 2088, serdab 2
- Bibliography
- Roth, Ann Macy. A Cemetery of Palace Attendants. Giza Mastabas 6. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995, p. 82, fig. 40, pl. 33b. 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. 104, fig. 1.
- Problems/Questions
- MFA accession number verified
