Limestone seated scribe statue of Irsetmu
Limestone statue of squatting man; figure squatting in usual fashion with soles of feet up on low rectangular base supported on back by flat pilaster, hands and forearm resting on upper legs, right hand holding palette (?) resting thumb up with thumb on top of palette, left hand holding roll of papyrus showing fingers above and thumb underneath, clothed in short [kilt] (knees not covered) held by belt around waist, knot at waist sticking up in front and end lying on side a little to left, whole figure painted red except white color of [kilt] and hair and palette painted black, support (pilaster) and base and connecting part between upper arms and body painted black, papyrus roll left white, name damaged [GLYPHS] Irsetmu, inscribed only on front part of base (partly broken off); right hand partly broken off as well as forefinger, tip of nose, part of right ear, and edge of [kilt], and tip of left big toe broken off.
Illustration: Yes [photograph]
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_60547
- Alternate IDs
- JE_60547; EMC_JE_60547; HUMFA_32-4-18; 32-4-18; EMC_SR_2/15770; SR_2/15770
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Entry Date
- 04/10/1932
- Title
- Limestone seated scribe statue of Irsetmu
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- Height: 24.5 cm Width: 17.6 cm Thickness: 15.3 cm
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- Mastaba G 1673, debris of room a
- Bibliography
- 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. 65.