Priest Pen-maat Holding a Shrine
Description
<p>This kneeling male figure is holding a shrine. There is an inscription on a stele and on the front of the base.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.81' rel='external'>Priest Pen-maat Holding a Shrine</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 priest figure carved in dark stone holds a shrine-like object against his chest or lap.
The artifact is a small, black/dark hard-stone sculpture of a bearded man with a shaved or tightly wrapped head and a long, striped wig descending along the sides. He stands upright on a rectangular base. One arm holds a rectangular shrine or chest-like case in front of him; the other arm supports it from below. The shrine has recessed paneling/edges suggesting a stylized architectural or reliquary form. The base bears weathered/eroded carved marks consistent with an inscription or decorative band, but the individual signs are not clearly legible from the image quality. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible; any hieroglyphic text is too unclear to accurately transcribe.
Connections
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.81 tier-2
- Walters-id 15191 tier-2
About this record's data
- 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.