Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue
Lion-Headed Harmiysis and Worshipper
Description
<p>Lion-Headed Harmiysis stands with left foot advanced; both feet are placed on a low relief depicting a dead antelope with legs bound. Harmiysis wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt and a royal kilt; he holds a sickle-shaped sword and a sham staff in his hands. A shaven-headed priest kneels in front of the god and raises his hands in worship. The god and priest are joined to the separately made pedestal.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.1013' rel='external'>Lion-Headed Harmiysis and Worshipper</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>
Inscriptions (1)
Inscription #1
English description
[Partially obliterated inscription on pedestal] To be recited: Hor-p-mey-huse, the great god who is in Hebenu, may he give life, prosperity, health, a high age, a long and good age, authority, honor and praise (to)...(priest) of Hor, the lord of Hebenu, Nes-p-muy, son of Djed-Eset-efonkh...
Cross-references (2)
- Walters-AccNum 54.1013 tier-2
- Walters-id 12405 tier-2
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