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The rectangular base with two holes for fixing a statuette. According to the inscriptions placed on the right (1) and left (2) sides of the base, the statuette represented Ramesses II. The inscriptions read: (1) "Usermaatre-Setepenre, Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun", (2) "--- Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun".

The rectangular base with two holes for fixing a statuette. According to the inscriptions placed on the right (1) and left (2) sides of the base, the statuette represented Ramesses II. The inscriptions read: (1) "Usermaatre-Setepenre, Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun", (2) "--- Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun".

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Hieroglyphs \|1-<1-ra-wsr-C10-ra:stp:n-2>-G39-ra-<1-mr-C12A\-C2A-ms-s-sw-2>-! \|2--#b-..-..-..-#e--G39-ra-<2-mr-C12A\-C2A-ms-s-sw-1>-!
Transliteration (1) wsr-mAa.t-ra stp-n-ra sA ra ra-ms-sw mr(j)-jmn (2) --- sA ra ra-ms-sw mr(j)-jmn
Translation (1) Usermaatre-Setepenre, Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun (2) - - - Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun (1) Usermaatre-Setepenre, Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun (2) - - - Son of Re, Ramesses-Meriamun

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1908 - purchased by Likhatchev in Cairo.
1918 - with the collection of Likhatchev donated to the Archaeological Institute, Petrograd.
1925 - with the collection of Likhatchev transferred to the Museum of Palaeography (since 1935 Museum of Books, Documents and Scripts) of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR,
1938 - with the collection of Likhatchev transferred to the Institute of History, Leningrad.
1938 - with the collection of Likhatchev transferred to the Hermitage.

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Perepelkin Yu.Ya., Akademiya Nauk SSSR. Institut Knigi, dokumenta Pis'ma. Opisaniye vystavki "Pis'mennost' drevnego mira i Rannego Srednevekov'ya. Moscow - Leningrad, 1936, p.15, no.XIY, 5.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.67-68, cat.no.65, tab.I, 65.

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Preservation: 
The base is broken in two parts, the front left corner is partly lost, the surface is weathered.

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