'Idi, illustrated in pl. 17, figs. 1-2, has recently been presented to the University of Missouri's Museum of Art and Archaeology by Mr. Leonard Epstein of New York.' It is made of quartzite, a material that was much favored by Userkaf but otherwise was seldom utilized during the Old Kingdom and is here perhaps attested for the first time in a piece of sculpture dating to the end of that period, the Sixth Dynasty.2 The inscriptions on each side of the base suggest that 'Idl may be identified with a contemporary vizier of the same name who was probably buried at Abydos. In any case his titles make it clear that he resided in the provinces rather than at Memphis, while his name and the manner in which his name is written strongly suggest that Abydos was his home.