Object owner details: In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 72139)

Findspot: Western Cemetery, Mastaba G 2088, chapel (torso of "a"), room c (torso of "b" and base and fragment of arm of "a"), and serdab 1 (pestle)

Limestone

Expedition Measurements: Height: 25.5 cm Width: 26 cm Length: 19 cm

Description: Limestone servant statue, group of two female figures on one base, "a" squatting sifting and "b" standing bent fowards grinding grain in mortar-hole in base with long conical pestle; colors partly preserved, base and full wig of "a" black, band around hair red, bodies except for long white tunic yellow, small necklace and tips of breasts black, pestle red-brown, names written on top of base, a) horizontally in front of sieve [GLYPHS] Nefretinet facing right, b) vertically in front outside mortar hole along edge of base [GLYPHS] Ankhmaes; both figures incomplete, a) face damaged, nose broken off, right knee, right lower arm and hand, and left hand missing, b) upper part of body above thighs missing. Illustration: Yes. Illustration scale: ca 1:3

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind L.B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings 3: Memphis (Abû Rawâsh to Dahshûr). Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1931. 2nd edition. 3: Memphis, Part 1 (Abû Rawâsh to Abûsîr), revised and augmented by Jaromír Málek. Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 1974, p. 69. Roth, Ann Macy. A Cemetery of Palace Attendants. Giza Mastabas 6. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995, p. 81, fig. 32, p. 90, pl. 32c. Roth, Ann Macy. "The Meaning of Menial Labor: 'Servant Statues' in Old Kingdom Serdabs." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002), p. 111, fig. 2.