Senenu Grinding Grain

Statue (limestone) of the King’s scribe Sennu. Sennu is represented, wearing a long kilt with fringed top, leaning over a huge grinder and grinding grain. The texts are inscribed on grinder and base. Condition: Large chips in left edge of base, left buttock and left leg of figure. Large chip in rear of base; numerous small chips and scratches. Blue substance in some signs on right side.

The royal scribe Senenu appears here bent over a large grinding stone. This unusual sculpture seems to be an elaborate version of a shabti, a funerary figurine placed in the tomb to work in place of the deceased in the hereafter. The hieroglyphic text included Senenu's claim to a blessed afterlife by virtue of ...