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Nefertem is represented striding, his left foot advanced. He wears a short royal kilt, a tripartite wig, an artificial pleated beard and a composite crown consisting of a stylized lotus flower and two feathers. The arms are pendant to the body, the fists are clenched. The back side of the base bears two senseless hieroglyphic signs. There are two tenons below the base.

Nefertem is represented striding, his left foot advanced. He wears a short royal kilt, a tripartite wig, an artificial pleated beard and a composite crown consisting of a stylized lotus flower and two feathers. The arms are pendant to the body, the fists are clenched. The back side of the base bears two senseless hieroglyphic signs. There are two tenons below the base.

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Recorded in the Golenischeff catalogue of 1891.

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Golenischeff W., Ermitage Imperial. Inventaire de la collection #gyptienne. S.l., 1891, p.12, no.120.

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Preservation: 
The right leg is broken at the ankle and above the knee; The proper left feather of the crown is lost; the lower right part of the base is destroyed; the face and the left arm are damaged; the surface is corroded.

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