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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Block Statue of Pede-Amon-Neb-Nesut-Tewy
Description
<p>This block sculpture depicts a squatting priest. It is inscribed on the rear, the front dress and the lap.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.172' rel='external'>Block Statue of Pede-Amon-Neb-Nesut-Tewy</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.
A gray granite Egyptian block statue (standing/seated in a block form) depicting a male figure with a wig and hands crossed over a front inscription panel.
The image shows a compact block-style statue with the male head turned slightly to the right. The figure wears a close-fitting wig or headdress covering the sides of the head and ears; the face has a stylized, simplified expression. The arms/hands are positioned against the front of the block, meeting over a wide, rectangular inscribed surface. The front is filled with incised hieroglyphic lines arranged in registers, with additional smaller signs near the upper edge of the panel. No other text in Greek, Coptic, or Arabic is visible. The statue appears to be carved from a dark gray stone surface with worn but discernible lettering; fine details of individual signs are not fully legible at this resolution.
royal
unknown (block statue form suggests Pharaonic period; exact dynasty/reign unclear from image).
good
Materials
gray granite
Signs
rectangular hieroglyphic panel/registers; multiple standard Egyptian script signs (specific determinatives/units unclear at this resolution)
Inscriptions (3)
Inscription #1
English description
[Multipart inscription; A, on the top] Osiris, chief of ... the divine father, Pede-Amon-neb-nesut-tewy (Petemestus). Made to him by his son to cause his name to live, the divine father, the sekhenu-udjat (priest, name omitted).
Inscription #2
English description
[B, on the front] An offering which the king gives (to) Amon-re, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, that he may give a funerary offering of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl, incense, clothing, and alabaster (oil jars), all good and pure things on which a god lives, to the prophet-priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, prophet-priest of Amun, who is in his house (temple), prophet-priest of (the goddess) Ipet-weret (Taweret), Pede-Amon-neb-nesut-tewy, son of a man with the same titles, Hor, son of a man with the same titles, Djed-Mut-ef-onkh, son of a man with the same titles, Hor, son of the prophet-priest of Amon-em-epet-sewet (Amun of Karnak), the gold of the god, the real relative of the king, beloved of him, Pede-Mut, the blessed before Osiris, revered before Mont.
Inscription #3
English description
[C, on the rear column, the ""Saitic Formula""] The local god of the prophet-priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, Pede-Amon-neb-nesut-tewy, son of the prophet-priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, Hor, may he be placed, ...etc. ... His feet are not hindered, his heart is not opposed. He is the Heliopolitan (Osiris).
Connections
Deities
Amun
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.172 tier-2
- Walters-id 10353 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.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.