Discovered in the ancient necropolis, or burial ground, in Asyut in 1913, the statue is inscribed on either side of the block-like seat with the offering texts for Itj-ibj, a minor official, represented with a shoulder-length head covering and wearing a shendyt. While early 12th Dynasty in style, this impressive seated statue shows Itj-ibj in a classic pose copied from Old Kingdom sculpture: hands balanced on his thighs, the left flat and the right clenched in a fist, holding a folded cloth. 
Traces of red paint with white spots remain on the fleshy areas of the sculpture, and it has been suggested that the exposed parts of the body were painted to make the limestone resemble red granite, a more costly stone.
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<span lang="en">Anonymous</span> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Egypt" class="extiw" title="w:en:Egypt"><span title="sovereign state in North Africa and Asia">Egypt</span></a>)<span style="display:none">Unknown author</span></div>
between 1976 and 1911 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Ante_Christum_Natum" class="extiw" title="w:en:Ante Christum Natum">BC</a> <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,-1950-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,-1976-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,-1911-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Middle_Kingdom_of_Egypt" class="extiw" title="w:en:Middle Kingdom of Egypt"><span title="period in the history of ancient Egypt between about 2000 BC and 1700 BC">Middle Kingdom of Egypt</span></a><div style="display: none;">era QS:P2348,Q191324</div>)
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