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Pe-Kher-Khons Holding the Shrine of Osiris
Description
<p>This statue depicts a man kneeling. He wears a wig and his chin is broken off. The text identifies the man as a priest named Pe-Kher-Khons, and he holds a shrine that contains a representation of Osiris.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.175' rel='external'>Pe-Kher-Khons Holding the Shrine of Osiris</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 seated/standing male figure in black stone holds a small shrine-like tablet with an inset deity figure and carved inscriptions.
The image shows a dark, polished stone sculpture of a man depicted with a bald head and pronounced facial features, shown seated or kneeling with one arm supporting a rectangular offering/shrine element against his torso. The object he holds contains a framed scene: a central standing figure within the recessed panel, surrounded by hieroglyphic bands at the top and/or sides and a base line. Additional hieroglyphic inscription lines run along the front-facing base plinth of the sculpture. The overall composition and the inset deity figure within a shrine panel align with the catalogue subject of a figure holding the shrine of Osiris, though the exact deity identification from the photo is not definitive at this resolution. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible.
religious
unclear (likely Late Period to Ptolemaic based on style, exact date unclear from image)
good
Deities
Osiris (inset shrine panel; identification inferred from catalogue rather than clearly readable symbols)
Materials
black granite (catalogue ground truth; sculpture appears dark and stone-like)
Signs
hieroglyphic inscription bands (unreadable at this resolution) ×20
Inscriptions (5)
Inscription #1
English description
[Multipart inscription; A, horizontal row at the front] An offering which the king gives to ... the hem-wen-priest, the henk-nun-priest of Hermonthis, Pe-kher-Khons, son of a man with the same titles, Nes-ba-neb-Dedet (Smendes)....
Inscription #2
English description
[B, before the knees] The revered before Osiris, lord of Abydos, the qebh-priest (water pourer), the sekhenu-udjat-priest, the accountant (bill writer) of the temple of Amun, ... Pe-kher-Khons.The revered before Osiris, lord of Busiris, the divine father, the third priest of Mont, lord of Hermonthis, Pe-kher-(Khons), born of Tede-Bastet.
Inscription #3
English description
[C, on the rear column] The revered before Amon-re, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, residing in Epet-sewet, the priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, the scribe of the divine treasure (temple treasure) of the temple of Amun in the second and fourth phylae Pe-kher-Khons, son of a man with the same titles, Smendes, born of Tede-Bastet, he says: whoever honors this statue and brings it mortuary offerings in the temple of the lord of the gods, may it be well with him and with his son after him as one who never perishes nor dies.
Inscription #4
English description
[D, on the base of the Osiris shrine] The revered before Osiris, the priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, Pe-kher-Khons.
Inscription #5
English description
[E, on the lintel and post of the shrine] An offering which the king gives (to) Osiris, the great god, the ruler of eternity, that he may give everything which comes forth on his offering-table, to ... Pe-kher-Khons. An offering which the king gives (to) Osiris, the chief of the West, that he may give funerary offerings of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl, to the ... of the temple of Amun, Pe-kher-Khons.
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.175 tier-2
- Walters-id 39515 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.