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Block Statue of Pede-Amon-Neb-Nesut-Tewy
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>
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).
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 22.172 tier-2
- Walters-id 10353 tier-2
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