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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Block Statue of Nes-Min (Sminis)
Description
<p>This black granite sculpture depicts a squatting figure with knnees drawn up and arms folded on the knees.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.158' rel='external'>Block Statue of Nes-Min (Sminis)</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
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 (3)
Inscription #1
English description
[Inscription, four vertical rows and one horizontal row] An offering which the king gives
Inscription #2
English description
[to] Amon-re, the lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, chief of Epet (Karnak), and Ptah, Soker, and Osiris, who is in the Holy Place, that they may give a funerary offering of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl, unguent, clothing, and alabaster (oil jars) to the prophet-priest of Amon-re, king of the gods, the divine father of Ptah of Memphis and Hathor, who is in Thebes,
Inscription #3
English description
[to] Nes-Min (Sminis), the blessed, son of a man with the same titles, the divine father and prophet-priest of Amun in Epet-sewet, Yah-mose, son of Ptah-mer-Amun (?), the blessed, born of the lady, the chantress of Amon-re, Dis-Amun.
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.158 tier-2
- Walters-id 10041 tier-2
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