Description
This statuette is broken off below the knees. The man depicted has a long kilt with a fold and tie at the waist. The piece is inscribed on the rear column and on both sides.
Provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923 [mode of acquistion unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
Inscriptions
[Translation] An offering that the king gives [to] Sobek of Shedet and Osiris in the Lake Country that they may give mortuary offerings of bread, beer ... to the prophet of Sobek, scribe of the orders (?) of the Pharaoh, Sobek ... son of the prophet of Sobek, scribe of the orders (?) of the Pharaoh P-shere-Dhowty, son of ... [From Steindorff 1946, p. 27
Credit
Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923
