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Block Statue of Pede-Amon-Neb-Nesut-Tewy

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Description

<p>This block sculpture depicts a squatting priest. It is inscribed on the rear, the front dress and the lap.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.172' rel='external'>Block Statue of Pede-Amon-Neb-Nesut-Tewy</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

[Multipart inscription; A, on the top] Osiris, chief of ... the divine father, Pede-Amon-neb-nesut-tewy (Petemestus). Made to him by his son to cause his name to live, the divine father, the sekhenu-udjat (priest, name omitted).
Inscription #2

English description

[B, on the front] An offering which the king gives (to) Amon-re, lord of the thrones of the Two Lands, that he may give a funerary offering of bread, beer, oxen, and fowl, incense, clothing, and alabaster (oil jars), all good and pure things on which a god lives, to the prophet-priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, prophet-priest of Amun, who is in his house (temple), prophet-priest of (the goddess) Ipet-weret (Taweret), Pede-Amon-neb-nesut-tewy, son of a man with the same titles, Hor, son of a man with the same titles, Djed-Mut-ef-onkh, son of a man with the same titles, Hor, son of the prophet-priest of Amon-em-epet-sewet (Amun of Karnak), the gold of the god, the real relative of the king, beloved of him, Pede-Mut, the blessed before Osiris, revered before Mont.
Inscription #3

English description

[C, on the rear column, the ""Saitic Formula""] The local god of the prophet-priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, Pede-Amon-neb-nesut-tewy, son of the prophet-priest of Mont, lord of Thebes, Hor, may he be placed, ...etc. ... His feet are not hindered, his heart is not opposed. He is the Heliopolitan (Osiris).

Connections

Deities Amun
Materials Gray Granite

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 22.172 tier-2
  • Walters-id 10353 tier-2
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