Basalt seated statue of dwarf Perniankh
Painted basalt seated statue of the dwarf Perniankh, wearing a kilt and curled wig; right hand resting on lap, holding a scepter, left hand holding a long staff against his chest. On front of the chair at either side of his legs are two vertical lines of inscription with his name and titles.
Details
- ID
- GEM_4474
- Alternate IDs
- GEM_4474; 4474; EMC_JE_98944; JE_98944; EMC_SR_2/19441; SR_2/19441; ZH_exc_178; exc_178
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4
- Title
- Basalt seated statue of dwarf Perniankh
- Medium
- Basalt
- Dimensions
- 48.0 x 14.0 cm
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- G 1700, serdab
- Bibliography
- Bolshakov, Andrey. "Hinting as a Method of Old Kingdom Tomb Decoration I. The Offering-Stone and the False Door of the Dwarf Snb." Göttinger Miszellen 139 (1994), pp. 10, 29, note 1; Hawass, Zahi. "Unique Statues at Giza V: The Exceptional Statue of the Priest Kai and His Family." In Khaled Daoud, Shafia Bedier & Sawsan Abd el-Fatah, eds. Studies in Honor of Ali Radwan. Supplément aux Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte, no. 34. Cairo: Supreme Council of Antiquities, 2005, p. 26; Hawass, Zahi. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Egyptian Archaeologists." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 163-164, fig. 101; Hawass, Zahi. "Zahi Hawass talks to KMT about matters on the Giza Plateau (Interview)." KMT 8, no. 2 (Summer 1997), p. 22; Hawass, Zahi. "The Statue of the Dwarf Pr-n(j)-anx(w) Recently Discovered at Giza." Festschrift für Werner Kaiser. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 47 (1991), pp. 157-162, pls. 13, 14; Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G48; Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 150.
- Notes
- From excavations of Zahi Hawass, 1990. Mislabeled in JE and SR as from tomb 1915 in Upper South Giza Cemetery.
- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Zahi Hawass; Perniankh (G 1700); RELATED SITE(S): G 1700; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_98944; EMC_SR_2.19441; ZH_exc_178