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Block Statue of Pe-Kher-Kons

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

This block statue is of a squatting man with an inscription on the front dress and rear.

Inscription

[On the front of the dress] An offering which the king gives to Amon-re, the lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, who is governing in Epet-sewet, and Mut, the eye of Re, the lady, and Khonsu in Thebes, Nefer-hotep (Nephotes), the gods and goddesses who are in Epet-sewet, that they may give everything which comes forth on their offering tables in the course of every day, to the divine father and prophet-priest of Amun in Epet-sewet, the prophet-priest of Khnum, Pe-kher-Khons (Pchorchonsis), the blessed, who is called also Pa-Mont, the blessed, son of the divine father Oser-were (Osoroeris), the blessed. [On the rear column] Osiris, the divine father and prophet-priest of Khnum, Pe-kher-Khons, the blessed, son of Oser-were, the blessed.

Provenance
Provenance (from the French provenir, 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody, or location of a historical object.

[Excavated, Karnak Cachette, 1904, nos. CK828/K55]. Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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Geographies

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

Measurements

H: 13 1/4 in. (33.6 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1912

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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22.210

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