Limestone scribe statue
Painted limestone statuette of a scribe sitting cross-legged; left hand holding a partly opened papyrus-roll, stretched on his lap; right hand holding a pen. Inscribed with some hieroglyphic signs painted black on the roll.
Details
- ID
- GEM_5337
- Alternate IDs
- 5337; GEM_5337; EMC_JE_99130; JE_99130; EMC_SR_2/19471; SR_2/19471
- Department
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Classification
- Sculpture
- Period
- Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
- Title
- Limestone scribe statue
- Medium
- Limestone
- Dimensions
- 45.5 x 29.0 x 23.5 cm
- Credit Line
- Grand Egyptian Museum
- Provenance
- Lepsius 21, serdab
- Bibliography
- PM 3, p. 49: LECLANT, Orientalia, N.S. 21 (1952), pl. xxxix [16], pp. 240, 241; SMITH (W . S.) in AJA 56 (1952), pl. 3 [A], p. 40; id. Art. . . Anc. Eg. pl. 45 [B], p. 67; ABOU BAKR in La Revue du Caire, xxxiii [175] (1955), fig. 31, p. 48; SEWELL, Egypt under the Pharaohs, pl. 15. Handoussa & Brovarski, Preliminary Report on the 2000 Field Season of the Cairo University - Brown University Expedition, pp. 1-4; Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G282. Hawass, Zahi. 2002. Hidden Treasures of the Egyptian Museum: One Hundred Masterpieces from the Centennial Exhibition, p. 17
- Notes
- From excavations of Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr.
- Remarks
- RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Abdel Moneim Youssef Abu Bakr; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_99130; EMC_SR_2.19471; CU_21/25; RELATED SITE(S): Lepsius 21