This group statue depicts the official Tuthmosis together with his wife or mother Ia seated on a plain seat with a high back with their feet resting on a footstool. The man is wearing a short-sleeved garment over an ankle-length kilt. His head is missing but his wig must have been a short type. The woman is dressed in a long dress and a plain long wig. The outer arms of both figures are placed on their thighs, but their other arms are around each other. The carving is summary which indicates that the details were originally rendered in paint.
"[1] A royal offering for Osiris, Foremost of the Westerners. May he give life, prosperity and health to the ka of the [2] standard bearer Tuthmosis, the Great One of the "kenbet" of [3] Thoth, the Lord of Hermopolis, (as well as) a perfect age in his town. Ia has made it for him."
Schmitz, B., Kleine Inschriften aus dem Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim, in: Altenmüller, H. & Germer, R. (Hrsg.), Miscellanea Aegyptologica : Wolfgang Helck zum 75. Geburtstag, Hamburg 1989, S. 165-181 (S. 166-171, Abb. 1, Tf. 8-9).
Monreal Agustí, L. (Hrsg.), Egipto milenario : Vida cotidiana en la época de los faraones, Barcelona 1998, Kat.-Nr. 87.
Porter, B. & Moss, R.L.B., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. VIII : Objects of provenance not known, Oxford 1999, S. 502.
Seipel, W., u.a., Ägypten : Im Reich der Pharaonen; Auf der Suche nach Schönheit und Vollkommenheit, Leoben 2001, Kat.-Nr. 30.
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