This is a rare example of Egyptian glass statuettes. It represents a man sitting on a throne with a high back, his arms rest on his knees. He wears a long garment, short wig covering his ears and wide collar. On the back of the throne there is a vertical column of incised gilded hieroglyphs: "Sapair, true of voice". A complexity of technology made glass statuettes a luxury and, probably, they were manufactured only in royal workshops; at least most of them represent kings. Our piece may be stylistically dated to the late Eighteenth Dynasty.

Present location	STATE HERMITAGE MUSEUM [10/002] PETERSBURG
Inventory number	752
Dating	18TH DYNASTY
Archaeological Site	UNKNOWN
Category	FIGURINE/STATUETTE
Material	GLASS
Technique	GLASS-TECHNIQUE
Height	3.7 cm

Sapair true of voice.

Golenischeff W., Ermitage Imperial. Inventaire de la collection egyptienne. S.l., 1891, p.92, no.752.
Flittner N.D., Stekolno-keramicheskie masterskie Tel'-Amarny, Ezhegodnik Rossiiskogo instituta istorii iskusstva, v.I, Petrograd, 1922, p.139, tab. XII,4.
Lapis I.A., Matthieu M.E., Drevneegipetskaya skul'ptura v sobranii Gosudarstvennogo Ermitazha. Moscow, 1969, pp.76-77, cat.no.73, tab. I,73, fig.48.
Landa N.B., Lapis I.A., Egyptian Antiquities in the Hermitage. Leningrad, 1974, pl.95

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