A Fragmentary Egyptian Limestone Figure of the Priestess Tagerem, Ptolemaic Period, reign of Ptolemy I/Ptolemy II, 304-256 B.C.

standing on a rectangular base, and wearing a long close-fitting dress, her hands held at her sides, the hands and feet with finely carved detail, the back pillar engraved in sunk relief with columns of inscription, including a mention of the city of Sakhebu, the base with vertical incisions.

from Sakhebu (present day Zat el-Kom), in the southwestern Nile delta
private collection, Paris, acquired prior to 1970

Jean Yoyotte, 'Encore Sakhebou', Kêmi, vol. 15, 1959, pp. 75-79
Jozef Janssen, Annual Egyptological Bibliography, Leiden, 1959, p. 214, no. 59657
Sabine Albersmeier, Untersuchungen zu den Frauenstatuen des Ptolemäischen Ägypten, Mainz am Rhein, 2002, no. 158, p. 386

What survives is good and as shown, some chips and surface somewhat weathered in areas, especially on the base, back, and sides of the back pillar (much of the inscription on the side of the back pillar not shown in the catalogue is missing), the fingers and toes have chips, the line across the abdomen is a flaw in the stone, there is a barely visible stress crack or flaw across the statue at wrist level.
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An old inventory number painted in ink on the break reads 'No. 2240.'

For a related example from the Serapeion at Saqqara see G. Andreu, M.-H. Rutschowscaya, and Chr. Ziegler, Ancient Egypt at the Louvre, Paris, 1997, pp. 70-71 (Susan Walker and Peter Higgs, eds., Cleopatra of Egypt, from History to Myth, London, 2000, pp. 71-72).