Ivory statuette of a man with the lower part of his body missing. It is carved from a single piece of hippopotamus incisor and was one of a mass of ivory pieces discovered in the "main deposit" at Hierakonopolis. The figure is clearly a person of some stature and his right hand may have held a staff of sceptre. His ears are significantly out of proportion with the rest of his features.

 

He is wearing a patterned garment tied at the right shoulder with two straps secured with a bow., The garment has a fringe on the right. He is clean-shaven and has short hair or a skull-cap. His left hand is clenched over his chest. Dating to the Predynastic period or Nagada I.