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Block Statue of Nes-Ba-Neb-Dedet

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

This figure is a squatting priest who has his hands crossed o his knees. There is an inscription on the sides of the pedestal, the front of the dress, and the rear columns.

Inscription

[Multipart inscription; A, on the front of the dress] ...the divine father and prophet-priest of Amon-em-epet-sewet, Nes-ba-neb-Dedet, the blessed, on of Irty-r-tjey, the blessed, born of the lady Khered-ankh, the blessed: may you be as a god, may your name be as (a name of) a god, in whom you live eternally and your genius every day. [B, on the base] An offering which the king gives to Amon-re, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands (and of?) Karnak, and (to) Ptah-Soker, who is in the Holy Place, and (to) the gods, who are in Thebes, that they may give all good things on which a god lives, in the course of every day, at all festivals of the heaven and of the earth ..., the smelling of the sweet breeze (of the north wind) as a (?) revered, drinking (?), (at) running water, to Nes-ba-neb-Dedet. [C, on the rear column, illegible]

Provenance
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[Possibly excavated from the Karnak Cachette, no. CK 1001]. R. de Rustafjaell [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; R. de Rustafjaell Sale, Sotheby's, December 19, 1916, pl. VI, 2, and p. 8, lot 84; Talbot Ready [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Talbot Ready Sale, Hotel Drouot, March 14-15, 1919, no. 84. Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1922, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

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Geographies

Egypt (Place of Origin)

Measurements

H: 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)

Credit Line

Acquired by Henry Walters, 1922

Location in Museum

Not on view

Accession Number

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22.171

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