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Block Statue of Nes-Ba-Neb-Dedet

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Description

<p>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.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.171' rel='external'>Block Statue of Nes-Ba-Neb-Dedet</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Photograph of a seated block statue with a rounded head and a wig-like headdress, shown frontally with the torso covered by dense hieroglyphic inscriptions.

The object is a dark, compact stone block statue depicting a man in a typical Egyptian block-statue format. The figure’s head is rounded with a wig/headdress indicated by carved contours; the face is forward-facing with simplified eyes and a suggestion of a mouth. The upper arms and chest merge into the block form. Most of the front surface is filled with carved hieroglyphs arranged in horizontal and vertical registers, suggesting an offering or commemorative text associated with the statue owner. No cartouche is clearly legible in the provided image. The lower portion has a band of additional incised text and/or decorative register lines. Edges and surface show wear and minor chips, but the inscriptions remain largely visible though not fully readable at this resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.

royal Unknown; likely Late Period to Ptolemaic or similar based on block-statue style, but not enough visible detail to date precisely. good
Materials grayish black stone/granite (consistent with catalogue)
Signs incised hieroglyphic signs (non-specifically readable at this resolution) ×50

Inscriptions (2)

Inscription #1

English description

[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.
Inscription #2

English description

[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.

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 22.171 tier-2
  • Walters-id 9122 tier-2

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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.