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Block Statue of Pede-Amon-Neb-Nesut-Tewy

Egyptian (Artist)
946-736 BCE (Third Intermediate Period)
gray granite
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )

This block sculpture depicts a squatting priest. It is inscribed on the rear, the front dress and the lap.

Inscription

[Multipart inscription; A, on the top] Osiris, chief of ... the divine father, Pede-Amon-neb-nesut-tewy (Petemestus). Made to him by his son to cause his name to live, the divine father, the sekhenu-udjat (priest, name omitted). [B, on the front] An offering which the king gives (to) Amon-re, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, that he may give a funerary offering of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl, incense, clothing, and alabaster (oil jars), all good and pure things on which a god lives, to the prophet-priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, prophet-priest of Amun, who is in his house (temple), prophet-priest of (the goddess) Ipet-weret (Taweret), Pede-Amon-neb-nesut-tewy, son of a man with the same titles, Hor, son of a man with the same titles, Djed-Mut-ef-onkh, son of a man with the same titles, Hor, son of the prophet-priest of Amon-em-epet-sewet (Amun of Karnak), the gold of the god, the real relative of the king, beloved of him, Pede-Mut, the blessed before Osiris, revered before Mont. [C, on the rear column, the "Saitic Formula"] The local god of the prophet-priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, Pede-Amon-neb-nesut-tewy, son of the prophet-priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, Hor, may he be placed, ...etc. ... His feet are not hindered, his heart is not opposed. He is the Heliopolitan (Osiris).

Provenance
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[Excavated, Karnak Cachette, 1904, nos. CK108/K132]. Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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Geographies

(Place of Origin) Egypt, Karnak (Place of Discovery)

Measurements

H: 10 1/2 in. (26.6 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, by 1931

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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22.172

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