Small statuette of a porter on a small pedestal. His face is round with nicely shaped eyes, nose, mouth, and ears. He has a typical, short Egyptian hairstyle, rather bigger on the back. His chest is uncovered he wears a typical Egyptian apron over his hips. The hands are lowered next to the body in the position of a porter carrying some cargo.
Catalogue entry
Statuette of a carrier Museum Mimara, Zagreb Collection of the Ancient Civilizations Inv. no. ATM 243 Egypt, unknown site Middle Kingdom (c. 2055-c. 1650 B.C.) 12th Dynasty (c. 1985-1773 B.C.) wood 14.2 x 4.4 cm
Resources
Čukman Nikolić, Ivana; Tomorad, Mladen. „Artefacts from Ancient Near East and Egypt in the Collection of Archaeology of the Mimara Museum in Zagreb, Croatia“. U: Tomorad, Mladen (ur.). Research of the history and culture of the Ancient Near East in the Southeast Europe: 1. Croatia - Selected problems. Saarbrücken, 2014: 85-126. no. 4, 88, 100, fig. 4.
Čukman Nikolić, Ivana; Tomorad, Mladen. „The Collection of Egyptian Artifacts in the Mimara Museum in Zagreb (Croatia)“. U: Tomorad, Mladen (ur.). A History of Research into Ancient Egyptian Culture conducted in Southeast Europe. Oxford, 2015: 59-74. no. 4, 61, fig. 52.
Tomorad, Mladen. „The Egyptian antiquities in Croatia“. PalArch 2, 1 (2005): 1-33. 12.
Tomorad, Mladen. Egipat u Hrvatskoj: egipatske starine u hrvatskoj znanosti i kulturi. Zagreb, 2003. 64, fn. 389, 65, fig. 58.
Tomorad, Mladen. Model računalne obrade i prezentacije staroegipatskih predmeta u muzejskim zbirkama u Hrvatskoj. [Doktorska disertacije, Filozofski fakultet u Zagrebu Sveučilišta u Zagrebu]. Zagreb, 2006. 17.
Tomorad, Mladen. Staroegipatska civilizacija, sv. II: Uvod u egiptološke studije. Zagreb, 2017. 65.
