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Source Description
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.
Scholar Source Context
Document identity
localId
39196
label
Prophet of Sobek Standing Against a Pillar
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
1
Source metadata
id
39196
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Prophet of Sobek Standing Against a Pillar
description
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.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
Sculpture: 2119-1793 BCE; Inscription: 946-736 BCE (?) (Middle Kingdom)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
figurines
statuettes
imageCount
1
pageCount
1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 6 11/16 in. (17 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
inscriptions
[Translation] An offering that the king gives [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
dynasty
Inscription: 22nd Dynasty (?)
med
gray peckled granite
creator_ids
6182
collection_ids
EGY
exhibition_ids
none
Single page context
seq
1
pageIndex
0
type
photo
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b324ac1f18bfd229