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ZOLTÁN HORVÁTH: A unique servant statue in the Egyptian Collection

6 Parkinson and Quirke 1995, 20. Compare the dimensions of the two writing boards from Akhmim (Cairo Museum, inv. no. CG 25367, height 25, width 47.5 cm; inv. no. CG 25368, height 26, length 46.5 cm) with the standardised size of the papyrus sheet in the Middle Kingdom: height ca. 29-33 cm, width ca. 42.5-54 cm. 66 Note that, e.g., the tablet in the Louvre with an excerpt from the Kemyt (AF 497) measures only 10.1 x 35 cm, which would be a remarkable deviancy. 6 For a brief and general treatment of the model boards, see Vermis 1984, col. 704; Parkinson and Quirke 1995, 36; De Cenival 1982, 37. For the dimensions, the reader is kindly asked to consult the catalogue comprised in the Appendix. (,H A few of them have been put together with dowels. The wood is most often sycamore, more rarely jujube, see Vernus 1984, col. 704. It has to be borne in mind that thickness is only exceptionally given in the publications. See, however, that the fragmentary Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. MMA 26.3.277 was reported by James as 0.5 cm thick, see James 1962, 97. As to the average thickness of model writing boards, the reader is kindly asked to consult the catalogue in the Appendix. To the list there, please add the following uninscribed tablets, the dimensions of which I have been informed: Heidelberg, Pelizaeus Museum, inv. no. 1689, a small tablet carried by a standing figure under his left arm in a model granary, 2.7 x 5.8 x 0.4 cm (B. Magen, personal communication); Chicago, Oriental Institute Museum, inv. no. 11494A, a tablet of a seated scribe attached to the floor of a model granary with a wooden nail, 4.6 x 6.2 x 0.3-0.6 cm (convex) (H. McDonald, personal communication); Leipzig, Ägyptisches Museum, inv. no. 033, a tablet belonging to a squatting scribe in a model granary, 4.2 x 6.4 x 0.7 cm (H-W. Fischer-Elfert, personal communication). 6 Dobrovits 1947, 5, n. 4. Beyond the gesso coat, the thickness of the board (0.4-0.5 cm) also relates it to the real writing tablets. 0 Yet unpublished but mentioned in Hayes 1990, 294. For an accessible image of the board, visit the website: <http://www.metmuseum.Org/toah/hd/twah/hod_28.9.5.htm>. The whitewashed wooden tablet bears an awkwardly composed offering formula on behalf of an official named Ipi. 1 Two writing boards from Akhmim (Cairo Museum, inv. nos. JdE 26441 and 26442) combine different types of texts by positioning them onto opposite sides of the same surface. For them, see M. G. Daressy, CGC Ostraca, Cairo 1901, 95-96, pis. LXII-LXIV. Several boards may have borne jottings, but the inscription has faded away. Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, inv. no. E 4139 is a squatting scribe holding an inscribed writing board: the inscription has become illegible owing to the almost complete loss of the plaster coat. Hildesheim, PelizaeusMuseum, inv. no. 1694 is a seated scribe inside a model slaughterhouse. The board is inscribed