Czére Andrea szerk.: A Szépművészeti Múzeum közleményei 102-103. (Budapest, 2005)

ZOLTÁN HORVÁTH: A unique servant statue in the Egyptian Collection

chiselling at the belly provides the perfect nesting of the board, the reverse of which is inscribed with the same clumsy, modern signs familiar from the writing board in Budapest (fig. 4). The upper surface of the board has been entirely blackened to the point of illegibility. The squatting man wears a white apron and a black bagwig revealing the earlobes. The large eyes are outlined in a black. The whites of the eyes are white; the pupil is indicated with a black spot. A distinctive feature of the face is the protruding forehead. The head is turned slightly left; the right arm is raised and bent. There is a vertical incision between the thumb and the forefinger, but otherwise the hand is roughly modelled. The third and ring fingers are separated by a notch. The low

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er body is block-shaped. The figure of a seated scribe holds his stylus (a wooden substitute for the actually used rush pen) in his right hand, between the thumb and the forefinger, his other fingers bent (fig. 9).

18 That once the figure held a writing board is clearly indicated by the horizontal excision at the belly and the position of the left arm. The squatting