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The king was represented striding, with his left leg advanced. He wears shendit, a traditional royal garment, in his hands he holds the cylinders imitating in a stylised manner the involute kerchiefs.

The king was represented striding, with his left leg advanced. He wears shendit, a traditional royal garment, in his hands he holds the cylinders imitating in a stylised manner the involute kerchiefs.

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Hieroglyphs M23:t-L2:t-<1-ra:n-t-mA-a:t-2>-anx-D:t:N17-!
Transliteration n(j)-sw.t bi.t n(j)-mAa.t-ra anx D.t
Translation King of Upper and Lower Egypn Nimaatre Who lives eternally. King of Upper and Lower Egypn Nimaatre Who lives eternally.

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From the collection of Likhatchev, probably acquired in 1908 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, Leningrad.
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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Bibliography

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.14,no.11
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.43-44, cat.no.7.

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Preservation: 
Only the torso of the statue has preserved. The left arm down to the wrist is lost.

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