Naophorous Block Statue of a Governor of Sais, Psamtikseneb

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 dark grey stone naophorous block statue depicts a standing figure with arms crossed over the chest, holding a small shrine containing a god. The head is frontal with wig-like hair and a stylized facial expression.

The image shows the front of a compact naophorous “block” statue carved from a dark grey stone. The figure’s upper body is shown within an arched/rounded head cap; the face is symmetrical and frontal with inset eyes and short, stylized features. Both arms extend inward across the chest, supporting a small rectangular shrine/naos centered on the body. Inside the shrine is a smaller, standing divine figure with a head/face mask and outstretched posture, rendered in raised relief. The surface shows age wear and several chips, particularly along the lower edges of the base/torso where the stone is broken. No clearly legible inscriptions are visible on the outer surfaces in this image; if any hieroglyphs exist, they are too worn/low-contrast to identify reliably. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is present. The materials appear consistent with the catalogue’s greywacke description, based on the dark, fine-grained stone appearance.