This modest statue was excavated in a cemetery near the pyramid of King Ahmose I, the last royal pyramid built in Egypt. The owner of the statue may have had a tomb or a cenotaph near the site, along the processional way that led from the cultivated land out to the shrine of Queen Tetisheri and then to the tomb of Ahmose, and finally to a great Terrace Temple.

The statue shows the man in his best wig, and a fine white kilt.  Unfortunately, though his skin retains its red paint, and his wig its black, there is no trace of an identifying inscription on the narrow back pillar that extends all the way to the back of his head.  That back pillar is probably the reason why the statue has survived intact through thirty-five hundred years.