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Nes-Ptah Holding Shrine with Osiris

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Description

<p>This piece is sculpted in the round and has an inscription around the pedestal, on b oth sides of the shrine, over the shrine entrance, to the left side of the rear column and on the rear of the rear column.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.159' rel='external'>Nes-Ptah Holding Shrine with Osiris</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

Inscriptions (5)

Inscription #1

English description

[Multipart inscription; A, on base beginning at left front] An offering which the king gives (to) Amon-re, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, (to) Ptah-resy-ineb-f, lord of 'life of the Two Lands' (sanctuary at Memphis), (to) Soker and Osiris, the great (god), who is in the Holy Place that they may give funerary offerings of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl, of incense, unguent, and all good things on which a god lives, to the prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, and divine father and prophet-priest of Anubis of Ro-setaw (the realm of the dead), to Nes-Ptah, son of Ankh-Wen-nofru (Onnophris).
Inscription #2

English description

[B, on rear column, the ""Saitic Formula""] The local god of the prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, Nes-Ptah, son of Ankh-Wen-nofru... etc.
Inscription #3

English description

[C, on the right side of the back] Made to his son, as he was in the netherworld, the prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, Ankh-Wen-nofru, born of the lady, Irterow.
Inscription #4

English description

[D, over the door of the shrine] The prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, the revered before Osiris, Nes-Ptah, says.
Inscription #5

English description

[E, on the right side of the shrine] An offering which the king gives (to) Osiris, that he may give funerary offerings of bread, beer, and all good things, on which a god lives, to the prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, Nes-Ptah, may he (?) keep you from being held back, when you seize your enemies, and your name from ever being destroyed; the revered before Osiris, Nes-Ptah, the blessed.

Connections

Deities PtahOsiris

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 22.159 tier-2
  • Walters-id 4741 tier-2
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