Description
This image of a squatting servant is carved from a single piece of wood. He squats in a relaxed manner typical of someone who worked as a scribe in a writing office.
Conservation
Date
Description
Narrative
Examination
examined for exhibition
6/13/1960
Treatment
cleaned
Exhibitions
Our Ancient Heritage: An Exhibit of Art and Artifacts from Egypt Mesopotamia Greece Roman Empire. Philbrook Art Center, Tulsa. 1963.
Carved for Immortality. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2004-2005.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1913-1914 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.