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The statuette represents a man standing on he right foot; his left leg is upraised and bent in the knee; both arms are lost. He wears a knee-long garment and a wig covering his ears and tied by a chaplet with a bend at the back. The body is painted red, the whites, chaplet and garment are white, the wig, brows eyelids and pupils are black. This is an image of an oarsman standing at the starboard of a ritual boat and facing its stern.

The statuette represents a man standing on he right foot; his left leg is upraised and bent in the knee; both arms are lost. He wears a knee-long garment and a wig covering his ears and tied by a chaplet with a bend at the back. The body is painted red, the whites, chaplet and garment are white, the wig, brows eyelids and pupils are black. This is an image of an oarsman standing at the starboard of a ritual boat and facing its stern.

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From the first collection of Bobrovski; the date, place and method of acquisition are unrecorded.

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Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.58-59, cat.no.47, fig.33.

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For parallels see H.E.Winlock, Models of Daily Life of Ancient Egypt from the tomb of Meket-Re at Thebes. Cambridge (Mass.), 1955, pl.35.

Preservation: 
Arms and feet are lost. The surface is cracked, pigments are partly lost.

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