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The statuette represents a striding man with his left leg advanced. He wears a short 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, the chaplet and the garment are white, the wig, brows, eyelids and pupils are black. The pegged arms are lost. This may be a statuette of a pilot standing on a prow of a model ritual boat.

The statuette represents a striding man with his left leg advanced. He wears a short 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, the chaplet and the garment are white, the wig, brows, eyelids and pupils are black. The pegged arms are lost. This may be a statuette of a pilot standing on a prow of a model ritual boat.

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From the collection of Turaev, acquired in the shop of the Cairo Museum.

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Bibliography

Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, p.57, cat.no.41.

General Comment

For parallels see J.H.Breasted, Egyptian Servant Statues. Washington, 1948, pl.69a.

Preservation: 
The arms are lost. The surface is weathered, pigments are partly lost.

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