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Imhotep is represented sitting on a chair with his feet resting on a rectangular base; the chair and the base are placed on a larger base, all the elements of the composition being cast together. Imhotep wears a long garment and a broad collar; his head is shaven. The whites of the eyes are inlaid with gold. In his hands he holds an unrolled papyrus bearing three horizontal lines of hieroglyphic inscription.

Imhotep is represented sitting on a chair with his feet resting on a rectangular base; the chair and the base are placed on a larger base, all the elements of the composition being cast together. Imhotep wears a long garment and a broad collar; his head is shaven. The whites of the eyes are inlaid with gold. In his hands he holds an unrolled papyrus bearing three horizontal lines of hieroglyphic inscription.

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Xrd-anx D.(t) (?)

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Hieroglyphs \|1-i-m-Htp:t*p-H8:Z1-! \|2-p:t-H-ms-s-! \|3-A17-anx-n:x-D-N17-!
Transliteration (1) jj-m-Htp sA (2) ptH ms (3) Xrd-anx D.(t) (?)
Translation (1) Imhotep, son of (2) Ptah, born of (3) Kheredankhdjet (?) (1) Imhotep, son of (2) Ptah, born of (3) Kheredankhdjet (?)

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Recorded in the Golenischeff catalogue of 1891.

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Golenischeff W., Ermitage Imperial. Inventaire de la collection egyptienne. S.l., 1891, pp.21-22, no.189.
Landa N.B., Lapis I.A., Egyptian Antiquities in the Hermitage. Leningrad, 1974, pl.119.

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