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 Unlike royalty and high officials, most Egyptians from the lower levels of Old Kingdom society—such as craftsmen, laborers, and household servants—did not have decorated tombs. Most representations of such individuals appear instead in the reliefs and sculpture of the tombs of high officials. Though the workers depicted are usually anonymous, these images reveal much about the daily life of ordinary Egyptians in the Old Kingdom. The four statues of Inti-shedu shown here portray one of the few such individuals known to us by name. Discovered at Giza in a cemetery of craftsmen and laborers, they seem to show their subject—who was an overseer of the boat of the goddess Neith—at different ages.
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