Digital Giza | Limestone servant statue

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; View: G 8504

Limestone servant statue of a man or woman with a pot, on a small base.

ID: GEM_12597
Alternate IDs: GEM_12597; 12597; EMC_JE_72227; JE_72227; EMC_SR_2/15341; SR_2/15341; SH_exc_1250; exc_1250
Department: Grand Egyptian Museum
Classification: Sculpture
Period: Old Kingdom, Dynasty 5
Title: Limestone servant statue
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 23.0 cm
Credit Line: Grand Egyptian Museum
Provenance: G 8504, brick-built serdab
Bibliography: PM 3, p. 247: HASSAN, Gîza, vi [3], pl. lxxviii, p. 180; Lehmann, Katja. Der Serdab in den Privatgräbern des Alten Reiches 1-3. Ph.D. Dissertation, Universität Heidelberg, 2000, Kat. G362; Roth, Ann Macy. "The Meaning of Menial Labor: 'Servant Statues' in Old Kingdom Serdabs." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002), pp. 114-115.
Notes: From excavations of Selim Hassan, 1935.
Remarks: RELATED CONSTITUENT(S): Selim Hassan; ALTERNATE NUMBER(S): EMC_JE_72227; EMC_SR_2.15341; SH_exc_1250; RELATED SITE(S): G 8504

Limestone servant statue