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ZOLTÁN HORVÁTH: A unique servant statue in the Egyptian Collection
found in a footnote of the publication, see ibid., n. 4. Strangely enough, none of the documents related to the purchase makes any mention of the board. For a convenient introduction to the manufacture of servant statues, see A. M.J. Tooley, Egyptian Models and Scenes, Shire Egyptology, vol. 22, Princes Risborough 1995, 63-64; C. Aldred, Egyptian Art in the Days of the Pharaohs 3100-320 BC, London 1980 (reprint 1994), 102. 8 Dobrovits 1947, 6. 9 This is based primarily on features like the head turned slightly left, suggesting that the figure's attention was directed to somebody or something in his immediate surroundings, and the schematised fashioning of the lower body, highlighting the upper, visible part of the statuette. As is well known, in the second half of the 6th Dynasty, the earlier, single statuettes, chiefly made of stone, were displaced by the wooden models of granaries, bakeries and breweries, etc., inside of which a range of small figurines evoke various operations; cf. Tooley 1995, 17. 1 Dobrovits 1947, 5 n. 4. To achieve the perfect nesting, the board was pierced by a hole in its lower middle section and a profiled outline was given to the lower edge. " These signs differ remarkably from the inscription on the foreside. 12 Dobrovits 1947, 8. 13 "Inspectional scenes" include various kinds of activities represented in the repertoire of tomb models as being carried out under the explicit supervision of local administration. A good and wellknown example is the scene of "inspection of livestock" from the tomb of Meketre (Cairo Museum inv. no. CG 46724, early 12th Dynasty, Deir el-Bahari); see J. H. Breasted, Jr., Egyptian Servant Statues, Bollingen Series, vol. 13, New York 1948, 9-10, pi. 6. 14 Overseer of work carrying his baton in a model granary: Philadelphia, University Museum, inv. no. E 14259, tomb of Meretites, Sedment, First Intermediate Period, see Breasted 1948, 14, pl. 11a; Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, inv. no. YEIN 1630, tomb of Gemni, Saqqara, early 12th Dynasty, see ibid., 13, pl. 10a; M. Jorgensen, Catalogue Egypt I (3000-1550 B.C.) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen 1996, 1.32-3 3. Overseer of work without his baton in a model granary: Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, inv. no. MYN 1572, tomb of Wadjet-hotep, Sedment, First Intermediate Period, see Breasted 1948, 13; Jorgensen 1996, 110-11. Overseer of work carrying his baton in a model granary, rising above the workers: Cairo Museum, inv. no. JdE 32831, tomb of Sepi III, el-Bersha, 12th Dynasty, see Tooley, Egyptian Models, 41, fig. 39. Overseer of work carrying his baton in a model slaughterhouse: New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. MMA 20.3.10, tomb of Meketre, early 12th Dynasty, Deir el-Bahari, see Breasted 1948, 37, pi. 34c; W. C. Hayes, The Scepter of Egypt I, New York 1990 5 , 263, fig. 170. A wooden granary in the collection of the British Museum (inv. no. BM EA 4157, from Beni Hasan, tomb no. 723, Sobekhotep,
