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Nes-Ptah Holding Shrine with Osiris

Egyptian (Artist)
946-736 BCE (Third Intermediate Period)
greenish stone
(Ancient Egypt and Nubia )

This piece is sculpted in the round and has an inscription around the pedestal, on b oth sides of the shrine, over the shrine entrance, to the left side of the rear column and on the rear of the rear column.

Inscription

[Multipart inscription; A, on base beginning at left front] An offering which the king gives (to) Amon-re, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, (to) Ptah-resy-ineb-f, lord of 'life of the Two Lands' (sanctuary at Memphis), (to) Soker and Osiris, the great (god), who is in the Holy Place that they may give funerary offerings of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl, of incense, unguent, and all good things on which a god lives, to the prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, and divine father and prophet-priest of Anubis of Ro-setaw (the realm of the dead), to Nes-Ptah, son of Ankh-Wen-nofru (Onnophris). [B, on rear column, the "Saitic Formula"] The local god of the prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, Nes-Ptah, son of Ankh-Wen-nofru... etc. [C, on the right side of the back] Made to his son, as he was in the netherworld, the prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, Ankh-Wen-nofru, born of the lady, Irterow. [D, over the door of the shrine] The prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, the revered before Osiris, Nes-Ptah, says. [E, on the right side of the shrine] An offering which the king gives (to) Osiris, that he may give funerary offerings of bread, beer, and all good things, on which a god lives, to the prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, Nes-Ptah, may he (?) keep you from being held back, when you seize your enemies, and your name from ever being destroyed; the revered before Osiris, Nes-Ptah, the blessed. [F, on the left side of the shrine; unclear but containing phrases containing wishes for the welfare of the owner of the statue]

Provenance
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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Exhibitions

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

Conservation

Date Description Narrative
Treatment Examined, cleaned.
Treatment Examined and cleaned in preparation for loan.
8/4/1960 Treatment cleaned; other
1/11/1999 Examination survey
6/12/2003 Treatment technical study; cleaned; loss compensation; coated
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Egypt (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 12 1/2 x W: 3 5/16 x D: 5 7/16 in. (31.7 x 8.4 x 13.8 cm); H with mount: 12 1/2 x W: 3 5/16 x D: 5 7/16 in. (31.7 x 8.4 x 13.8 cm); Mount H: 1 3/16 x W: 4 1/8 x D: 6 3/4 in. (3 x 10.5 x 17.1 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, by 1931

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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22.159

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