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

ZOLTÁN HORVÁTH: A unique servant statue in the Egyptian Collection

with strokes that seem to be an uncommon rendering of numerals and a rectilinear structure. The sign at the bottom is clearly dmd "total sum"

. The detailed records of various types of grain happen to have been transposed from the scribe's board to the walls of the model granary, see, e.g., London, British Museum, inv. no. EA 41573. For literature on this piece, see Appendix. The scene and its variants are thoroughly investigated in Der Manuelian 1996. The most detailed and best preserved document of this kind from the Old Kingdom is in the Giza tomb of Merib (G 2100-1). The following items are enumerated, in a precise alignment, one below the other: ti 200000, hnq.t 40000, pit 3300, sit.t 500, jwi 500, ml-hd 400, sr 200, trp 400; see in Der Manuelian, Presenting the Scroll, 580 and figs. 1, 4:2. From the early Middle Kingdom tomb of Khnumhotep at Beni Hasan, another list inscribed on the document specifies the bag of a successful hunt (arrangement the same as above): ht.t ml-hd 3300, smi 300, ghs 1200, njïw, sslw 3400, in P. Newberry, Beni Hasan 1, London 1893, pi. 38. In private sculpture, the partly unrolled papyrus roll inscribed with a list of pr.t-hrw offerings or simply with numerals, held in the hands or on the lap of the tomb owner depicted as a sitting or squatting scribe may be related to this document. For an Old Kingdom example with a papyrus roll bearing numerals in hieratic, see the already cited statuette of Irukakhufu (see n. 24). As a Middle Kingdom parallel holding a roll with an offering list, see the scribe statue of lay in the Louvre (inv. no. N 870); see Delange 1987, 96-99. Lists of this type have been applied to Cairo Museum, inv. no. JdE 92920 (from Aswan, early 12th Dynasty), see Haikal 1984-85, 311-15; and Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. MMA 26.3.277 A-B vso (from Thebes, early Middle Kingdom), three fragments of the same board: for literature, see n. 73 above. See n. 75 above. A rectangular writing board dated to the early 12 th Dynasty. I am particularly indebted to Richard Parkinson (British Museum) for providing me with excellent photographs and all the available information on this piece. H. Brunner, Altägyptische Erziehung, Wiesbaden 1957, 74. Beyond the obvious traces of correction (numerous examples in Metropolitan Museum of Art, inv. no. MMA 28.9.4) and the clumsy drawing of signs suggesting inexperience (very apparent on inv. no. MMA 28.9.5, see n. 75 above), it is best indicated with purposeful coupling of texts: e.g., model letter and list of commodities

—inv. no. MMA 26.3.277 A-B (see n. 73) and Cairo Museum, inv. no. JdE 92920 (see n. 82); lists of names and calculations (the latter modelling a methodological approach to calculating rations)

—Cairo Museum, inv. no. JdE 26441 and 26442 (see n. 76). Probably the most spectacular example of this is the stucco-covered writing board found in the courtyard of Djehuty's tomb at Dra Abu el-Naga (early 18th Dynasty). On the right-