Block Statue of Nes-Ba-Neb-Dedet
- Holding institution:
- The Walters Art Museum
- Data provider:
- The Walters Art Museum
- Title:
- Block Statue of Nes-Ba-Neb-Dedet
- Date:
- 946-736 BCE (Third Intermediate Period)
- Description:
- 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.For the latest information about this object, statues ; sculpture, visit art.thewalters.org.Dynasty: 22nd DynastyInscriptions: [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]Reign: Style:
- Type:
- sculpture
- Type (Narrower):
- Sculptures
- Type (Broader):
- Object
- Subject:
- Culture: Egyptian
- Provenance:
- [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.
- Medium:
- grayish black granite
- Extent:
- Dimensions: H: 9 7/16 in. (24 cm)
- Rights:
- Public Domain
- Identifier:
- 22.171
- Is part of:
- EGY
Ancient Art