Title/Description
Male figure from a model group: Overseer of work
Material
wood, ground layer, paint; worn; hole in the right hand (to fit the missing sceptre)
Dimensions
H: 26.8 cm W: 5.7 cm (at the shoulders) D: 3.2 cm (at the hip)
Iconography
Posture: standing man; right arm lifted and extended forward; a writing board under his left arm; a kherep-baton missing from the right hand
Body: painted brick red
Wig/Hair: short, black wig
Face: unshaven, prominent eyes set straight
Dress: knee-length white apron
Function
Funerary furniture/Part of the private burial equipment (Figure from a model granary or brewery)
Date
Middle Kingdom
Origin
Unknown
Provenance
Unknown (Purchased from a private collector in 1953)
Bibliography
Parallels
Philadelphia, University Museum, E 14259 (Sedment; Dynasty 11 - early Dynasty 12) (J. H. Breasted Jr., Egyptian Servant Statues (Bollingen Series 13), New York 1948., Pl. 11a; A. M. J. Tooley, Middle Kingdom Burial Customs. A study of wooden models and related material, PhD Diss. Univ. Liverpool 1989, 49, 108)
Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 32831 (Deir el-Bersha; Dynasty 12) (A. M. J. Tooley, Middle Kingdom Burial Customs. A study of wooden models and related material, PhD Diss. Univ. Liverpool 1989, 114; Tooley 1995, 41, fig. 39)
Lisbon, Museu Nacional de Arqueologia, E416 
Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1914.808 (L. M. Berman, Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art 1999, cat. 148)
San José, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, RC 483 (Middle Kingdom)
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, 21.11769 (S. D’Auria et al., Mummies and Magic: The Funerary Arts of Ancient Egypt, Boston, Museum of Fine Arts 1992., fig. 72)
Inventory Number
53.320