Block Statue of Nes-Min

Description This block statue depicts a squatting figure with his knees drawn up and arms crossed on his knees. He wears a large wig and has a beard. Inscriptions run on the front dress, right and left sides of the dress, and in columns in the rear.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
6/23/1978	Treatment	cleaned
7/02/2003	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Secret Signs: Egyptian Writing. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2003-2004.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Inscription]

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911