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The statue represents a kneeling man holding a naos with a statue of Osiris in front of him. He wears a long shirt with low-cut neck and wide pursed sleeves and an apron reaching his ankles; on the head there is an elaborate wig with wavy curls and two underlying flaps of larger curls reaching his shoulders. Delicate cold features of oval face are skilfully modelled. On the front surface of the naos there are three hieroglyphs remaining of an erased inscription (A); another inscription that was almost entirely erased had been arranged at the back pillar (B). Traces of red and yellow strips survive on the crown of Osiris. Stylistic and iconographic characteristics of the statue including the type of garment and the wig allow us to date it to post-Amarna period, probably to the reign of Horemheb.

The statue represents a kneeling man holding a naos with a statue of Osiris in front of him. He wears a long shirt with low-cut neck and wide pursed sleeves and an apron reaching his ankles; on the head there is an elaborate wig with wavy curls and two underlying flaps of larger curls reaching his shoulders. Delicate cold features of oval face are skilfully modelled. On the front surface of the naos there are three hieroglyphs remaining of an erased inscription (A); another inscription that was almost entirely erased had been arranged at the back pillar (B). Traces of red and yellow strips survive on the crown of Osiris. Stylistic and iconographic characteristics of the statue including the type of garment and the wig allow us to date it to post-Amarna period, probably to the reign of Horemheb.

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Hieroglyphs \|A-//-A40-mAa:xrw\r3-! \|B1-sw-X8-//-! \|B2-i*(t:n:ra)-//-!
Transliteration (A) --- mAa-xrw (B1) [Htp] dj nj-sw.t --- (B2) itn
Translation (A) - - - true of voice. (B1) [A boon] given by the king - - - (B2) Aten - - - (A) - - - true of voice. (B1) [A boon] given by the king - - - (B2) Aten - - -

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From the collection of Castiglione.
1825 - acquired by the Russian Academy of Sciences;
1862 - transferred to the Hermitage from the Egyptian Museum of the Academy of Sciences.

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Bibliography

Golenischeff W., Ermitage Imperial. Inventaire de la collection #gyptienne. S.l., 1891, p.87, no.739.
Matthieu M.E., Pavlov V.V., Pamyatniki iskusstva drevnego Egipta v museyah Sovetskogo  Soyuza. Moscow, 1958, fig.60.
Matthieu M.E., Iskusstvo drevnego Egipta. Moscow, 1961, p.416, fig.97.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.78-79, cat.no.75, tab. I,75, fig.46.
Landa N.B., Lapis I.A., Egyptian Antiquities in the Hermitage. Leningrad, 1974, pl.46.

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Preservation: 
The naos and the base are damaged; inscriptions are erased. Pigments are almost entirely lost.

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