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ZOLTÁN HORVÁTH: A unique servant statue in the Egyptian Collection

The striding statue of Wadjet-hotep could be cited as an early example. Pieces with wigs revealing the earlobes and dated to the early Middle Kingdom were cited in D. Magee, "A problematic wooden statue in the Ashmolean Museum," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 81 (1995), 214: Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, inv. no. E 219.1932, see J. Bourriau, Pharaohs and Mortals, Cambridge 1988, 35-36, no. 26 and Paris, Louvre, inv. no. E 20179, see E. Delange, Catalogue des statues égyptiennes du Moyen Empire, Paris 1987, 186. Sedment, tomb no. 2016, dated to the end of the Old Kingdom - First Intermediate Period, see Jorgensen 1996, 106; W. M. F. Petrie, Sedment I, London 1924, 10-11. For a proposed dating and a detailed description of the striding statue (Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, inv. no. /EIN 1561), see especially Harvey 2001, 96, 474-75, no. B52. The group of wooden models from the tomb includes a bakery, brewery and butchery scene (Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, inv. no. .EIN 1571), a model granary (inv. no. /EIN 1572), a southbound boat (inv. no. /EIN 1569) and a northbound boat (inv. no. /EIN 1570), see Jorgensen 1996, 108-15, nos. 40-43. Paris, Louvre, inv. no. E 14321. Provenance unknown, dated to the 4th-5th Dynasty, see Ch. Ziegler, Catalogue des steles, peintures et reliefs égyptiens de l'Ancien Empire et de la Première Période Intermédiaire, Paris 1990, 302-3, no. 62. Cf. the remarks of Peter Der Manuelian, "Presenting the Scroll: Papyrus Documents in Tomb Scenes of the Old Kingdom," in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, vol. II, eds. P. Der Manuelian and R. Freed, Boston 1996, 566-68, arguing that one cannot always be certain that it is a stiff tablet and not a papyrus roll. Cf. Hayes 1990, 107. Various techniques of producing wooden forgeries of fair quality have already been described in T. G. Wakeling, Forged Egyptian Antiquities, London 1912, 35, 37-38, 43. The wood from which the statuette is carved is rather dense and heavy but has not been identified yet. E.g., London, Freud Museum, inv. no. FM 4379 is a limestone fragment of a wall relief depicting a kneeling court official in the pose of adoration executed in the Amarna style: see the contribution of N. Reeves in Sigmund Freud and Art: His Personal Collection of Antiquities, eds. L. Gamwell and R. Wells, London 1989, 60-61; inv. no. FM 3152 is an uninscribed block-statue in black granite, inv. no. FM 3289 is a large head made of black granite: for both, see id., "The Sigmund Freud Collection of Egyptian Antiquities," KMT 11, no. 4 (2000-01), 38. Freud's collection of scarab, scaraboid and seal-amulets included 79 pieces, 23 of which proved to be fake, see J. Sliwa, Egyptian Scarabs and Seal Amulets From the Collection of Sigmund Freud, Cracow 1999, 7. From the group of non-Egyptian works of art: London, Freud Museum, inv. no. FM 4392 is a Chinese terracotta camel executed in the early Tang style, see Jane Portal, in Gamwell and Wells 1989, 125.