Object owner details: In the collection of: Toledo Museum of Art (49.5)

Findspot: Western Cemetery, Mastaba G 2099, serdab, against E wall (in front of 39-1-16) facing W

Limestone

Expedition Measurements: Height: 51,6 cm Width: 16.4 cm Thickness: 22.8 cm

Description: White limestone seated statue of [GLYPHS] Raramu; male figure seated on rectangular block slanting down torward front of seat with base rounded in front, hands on knees, right hand closed, left hand open palm down, wears short wig, short [kilt] and pleated apron with belt, colors fairly well preserved, hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes, belt buckle, and space between arms and body and between legs painted black, body red, [kilt] white, pleated apron yellow, seat appears to have been painted grey; name and titles inscribed vertically (facing right) on front of seat beside legs and top of base, on his left: [GLYPHS] (on seat), [GLYPHS] (on base), on his right: [GYLPHS] (on seat), [GLYPHS] (on base); on right side of block-seat: figure (in fairly high relief) of man (Raramu's son, Kahersetef) standing facing right with left foot advanced, holding out bell censer in left hand and lid over it in right hand, wearing short white [kilt] and belt but without wig, figure painted yellow-brown (in contrast to red of seated figure of his father), hair and bell censor black, and [kilt] white, incised inscription in four horizontal lines in front of figure facing right: 1) [GLYPHS], 2) [GLYPHS], 3) [GLYPHS], 4) [GLYPHS]; on left side of block-seat: clumsy figure (in sunk relief) of girl (Raramu's daughter, Tjes-tjaset) standing facing left with right foot slightly advanced, arms hanging down, hands open with palms towards body, figure painted yellow, wearing black lappet wig and long white tunic, incised inscription in three horizontal lines in front of figure facing right: 1) [GLYPHS], 2) [GLYPHS], 3) [GLYPHS]; parts of seated figure's right forearm and hand broken off and mended and left forearm scratched but otherwise perfect. Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs

Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition

Selected Published References:
Manuelian, Peter Der. "Penmeru Revisited–Giza Mastaba G 2197 (Giza Archives Gleanings V)." Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 45 (2009), p. 34. Manuelian, Peter Der. "Excavating the Old Kingdom. The Giza Necropolis and Other Mastaba Fields." In Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, p. 150, fig. 92. 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. 70. Roth, Ann Macy. A Cemetery of Palace Attendants. Giza Mastabas 6. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1995, p. 151, fig. 80, pl. 116.