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

ZOLTÁN HORVÁTH: A unique servant statue in the Egyptian Collection

Aegyptiacarum, Pelizaeus-Museum Hildesheim Lieferung, vol. 6, Mainz am Rhein 1991; J. H. Breasted, Jr., Egyptian Servant Statues, New York 1948, 37, no. 4, pi. 35. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, inv. no. E 4139 Painted wooden figure of a squatting scribe with a writing board placed inaptly inside a model granary (E 2311). The scribe statue is from Beni Hasan, tomb no. 268. Early Middle Kingdom. No dimensions given. Coating of the board is too damaged to determine the content. The writing is most probably traces of numerals. Lit.: P. R. S. Moorey, Ancient Egypt, Oxford 20002, 47, fig. 25. Board from the tomb of Gemniuser, present whereabouts unknown Statue of a scribe holding a writing board on his knees from the mastaba of Gemniuser, north of the Teti pyramid. Dated to the First Intermediate Period, but most probably early 12th Dynasty. No dimensions given. Inscription is arranged into tabulated format. shi n jt-mhj hqi.t Lit.: C. R. Lepsius, Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien, vol. 1, Leipzig 1897, 159. Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum, inv. no. 15131 Small wooden writing tablet that once belonged to a scribe statuette. Dated to 12th Dynasty. No dimensions given. Numerals and names of various goods are mentioned in a loose format. bhsw 1000.000 psn w r h 1000 1000 hnr 1000 Lit.: Hieratische Papyrus aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin, vol. 3, Leipzig 1911, pi. 28.

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