An Egyptian fragmentary indurated limestone statue of a seated official
Middle Kingdom, late 12th-13th Dynasties, circa 1850-1700 B.C.
In typical attire, bare-chested and wearing a high waisted skirt knotted at the front, sitting cross-legged on a rectangular plinth, wearing a short wig with tapered ends and a band across the brow, his hands resting flat on his thighs, with two vertical columns of hieroglyphs inscribed down the front of the skirt, containing the standard funerary offering formula asked of the Memphite god Ptah-Sokar, 'A gift which the king gives (to) Ptah-Sokar that he may give invocation offerings consisting of bread and beer, oxen and fowl, alabaster and clothing, all things good and pure on which a god lives', on behalf of the deceased who is named on the horizontal row of text on the front of the plinth as the 'Provincial Governor, Overseer of Priests, Ameny-Senb born of Sat-Sobek-Hotep', 12in. (30.5cm.) high, repaired with some restoration
