Object owner details: In the collection of: Egyptian Museum, Cairo (JE 72138)

Findspot: Western Cemetery, Mastaba G 2099, serdab, westernmost statue along S wall facing N

Limestone

Expedition Measurements: Height: 40.6 cm Width: 22.3 cm Thickness: 15.4 cm

Description: White limestone triad; two standing men and small boy (reaching only up to their knees) between them, [GLYPHS] Raramu (proper left) and [GLYPHS] Nikauptah (proper right), both men standing with feet side by side, arms hanging down, hands closed holding handkerchiefs, both wear full wigs, short [kilts] and pleated aprons, figure of boy standing in same attitude as men but without wig and with triangular flap hanging down over [kilt] instead of pleated apron, wears broad necklace, back support behind both men almost as high as tops of their heads, base in front of Nikauptah cut back forming "step-back" in surface of front of base, bodies of men painted red-brown, [kilts] white, aprons yellow, support and base, background between legs and space around boy painted grey, body of boy painted yellow, hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes, space between arms and body and between legs painted black, [kilt] white, necklace blue; names and titles of men incised (painted black) vertically (facing right) on front outer edge of back support (to right and left of men), both inscriptions continue down onto top of base, to left of Raramu [GLYPHS] (on back support) and [GLYPHS] (on base), to right of Nikauptah [GLYPHS] (on back support) and [GLYPHS] (on base), name and titles of boy inscribed horizontally (facing right) across front of base in two parts, [GLYPHS] (proper right) and [GLYPHS] (proper left); only tip of boy's nose chipped off slightly, otherwise in perfect condition. Illustration: Yes with hieroglyphs. Illustration scale: 1:3

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, pl. 115.