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The statuette represents a standing man holding a sack on his shoulders. He wears a knee-long garment and a wig covering his ears. The body is painted red, the whites and the garment are white, the wig, brows, eyelids and pupils are black. The statuette of a porter originally was a part of a model of a granary that could include the scenes of bringing and measuring corn.

The statuette represents a standing man holding a sack on his shoulders. He wears a knee-long garment and a wig covering his ears. The body is painted red, the whites and the garment are white, the wig, brows, eyelids and pupils are black. The statuette of a porter originally was a part of a model of a granary that could include the scenes of bringing and measuring corn.

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

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Bibliography

Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, p56, cat.no.36, fig.31.
Landa N.B., Lapis I.A., Egyptian Antiquities in the Hermitage. Leningrad, 1974, pl.27.

General Comment

For parallels see J.H.Breasted, Egyptian Servant Statues. Washington, 1948, pl.51.

Preservation: 
The feet are lost, the nose tip is damaged. The surface is weathered, pigments are partly lost.

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