Home › Browse › WALTERS-EG › Object 220837
Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue

Imhotep

Source of record: Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) — catalogued by the holding institution. View the original record →

Description

<p>Imhotep is shown seated; his chair is missing. He holds a papyrus roll in both hands. He wears a skull cap, a short kilt, and an engraved collar. The whites of the eyes are inlaid.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.545' rel='external'>Imhotep</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1

English description

[On the sides of the base] Imhotep, give life (to) Pede-Wsire-neb-onkh, son of ...

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 54.545 tier-2
  • Walters-id 17856 tier-2
About this record's data
  • 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.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.