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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Block Statue of Sheshonq (Shishak)
Description
<p>This squatting figure has his knees drawn up and his arms crossed on his knees. He wears a wig. On the front is the deceased worshipping Osiris. There are incised hieroglyphics around the pedestal, the rear column, and the front dress.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.167' rel='external'>Block Statue of Sheshonq (Shishak)</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Inscriptions (2)
Inscription #1
English description
[Translation from G. Steindorff, 1946, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, p. 56, no. 164] Inscriptions on front: “Osiris Sheshonq, the blessed (true of voice) before Osiris” and “Osiris, who is in the divine hall.” Inscriptions around base from right front: “An offering which the king gives to Osiris, lord of the divine hall, that he may give all good and pure things on which the gods live, to the Osiris, the excellent, who is the … of the Amun temple of the third phyle, Sheshonq, the blessed, son of the divine father Pe-kher-Khons (Pchorchonsis), the blessed, born of the chantress of Amon-re…” On rear column, the “Saitic Formula”: “The local god of the divine father and prophet-priest of Amun in Epet-sewet, the praised and high-spirited Sheshonq, the blessed, son of the divine father Pe-kher-Khons, the blessed,
Inscription #2
English description
[is] behind, like the Heliopolitan (sic).”
Connections
Deities
Osiris
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.167 tier-2
- Walters-id 6021 tier-2
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