Abstract
This limestone block-statue, 0.30 cm. high, is registered as No. 67.30.426 in the Israel Museum. For a time it was in the Cairo Museum; later it was with an antiquities dealer in New York, whence it entered a private collection. It was probably then that the upper right part of the head was repaired. The collector donated the object to the Israel Museum.1 The statue shows a seated man covered by a mantle, except for the head, feet, and hands, which are shown in flat relief. The man wears a striated wig which leaves the ears free. The head is slightly raised.2 There are eight rows of inscription on the front of the garment; the rows are divided by single lines. The back pillar has a vertical inscription in five columns, also with dividing lines. The inscriptions are damaged in various places: in the horizontal inscription, the beginnings and ends of several rows have suffered; in the vertical text, there is extensive damage in the upper part. Some of this damage seems to have occurred after Daressy and Borchardt had copied the inscription; restorations which seem feasible according to that copy have been put in single backets in text and translation.
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