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Prophet of Sobek Standing Against a Pillar

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Description

<p>This statuette is broken off below the knees. The man depicted has a long kilt with a fold and tie at the waist. The piece is inscribed on the rear column and on both sides.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.202' rel='external'>Prophet of Sobek Standing Against a Pillar</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A standing human figure carved in dark, speckled stone faces forward with a short kilt-like garment and arms held down, shown against a plain background.

The image shows a freestanding statue-like object depicting a male-presenting, bearded figure standing upright. The figure has short hair, a prominent beard, and simplified facial features typical of small monumental sculpture. The body is carved with a horizontal band at the waist suggesting a kilt; the arms hang along the sides or slightly forward with hands close to the thighs. No clearly readable hieroglyphs or cartouches are visible on the front or in the cropped view. A lighter area of surface wear/loss is visible on parts of the torso and shoulder area. The object rests on a rectangular modern-looking base. The catalogued identification as a "Prophet of Sobek Standing Against a Pillar" is only partially verifiable from this cropped view: the figure is standing but the pillar element and any Sobek-related attributes are not clearly distinguishable in the image provided.

royal ancient Egyptian, period unclear (likely Late Period to Ptolemaic based on style, but not certain from the image) good
Deities Sobek (implied by catalogue; not clearly visible)
Materials gray peckled granite

Inscriptions (2)

Inscription #1

English description

[Translation] An offering that the king gives
Inscription #2

English description

[to] Sobek of Shedet and Osiris in the Lake Country that they may give mortuary offerings of bread, beer ... to the prophet of Sobek, scribe of the orders (?) of the Pharaoh, Sobek ... son of the prophet of Sobek, scribe of the orders (?) of the Pharaoh P-shere-Dhowty, son of ... [From Steindorff 1946, p. 27

Connections

Deities Sobek
Materials Gray Peckled Granite

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 22.202 tier-2
  • Walters-id 39196 tier-2

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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.