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

ZOLTÁN HORVÁTH: A unique servant statue in the Egyptian Collection

WRITING TAKLET WITH SIGNS OF MODERN TREATMENT (REVERSE OF INV. NO. 51.2197) the modification, the statue was holding a staff (or rather an /zrp-baton); therefore, it might have "portrayed an overseer who urged and instructed his menials".

12 As a matter of fact, models of granary, slaughter houses and the so-called "scenes of inspection"

15 most often include the figures of an overseer and a scribe, key representatives of local administration. The squatting position of our statuette, however, seems to exclude the possibility of identifying him as an overseer of work: as a rule, the overseer is a standing figure with or without his baton, and he may exceed the workers in height.

14 In a word, the case of this extraordinary work of art perhaps demands another explanation. This study originally aimed to augment the publication of the statue by editing the hieratic text on the writing board and defining how it was related to the sculpture. However, recent research in the Freud Museum, London has exposed two wooden statuettes, which appear to have been made in the same workshop where the Budapest