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Source Description
This squatting figure has his knees drawn up and his arms crossed on his knees. He wears a wig. On the front is the deceased worshipping Osiris. There are incised hieroglyphics around the pedestal, the rear column, and the front dress.
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Document identity
localId
6021
label
Block Statue of Sheshonq (Shishak)
core
obj
dtoType
sculpture
citationUrl
pageCount
11
Source metadata
id
6021
sourceUrl
contentType
sculpture
stage
normalized
title
Block Statue of Sheshonq (Shishak)
description
This squatting figure has his knees drawn up and his arms crossed on his knees. He wears a wig. On the front is the deceased worshipping Osiris. There are incised hieroglyphics around the pedestal, the rear column, and the front dress.
provenance
Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [claimed found at Luxor]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
mid 7th-late 6th century BCE (Late Period)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Sculpture
statues
sculpture
imageCount
11
pageCount
11
source
import
dimensions
units
cm
width
30.5
height
14.8
depth
16
dimensionsRaw
H: 12 × W: 5 13/16 × D: 6 5/16 in. (30.5 × 14.8 × 16 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
inscriptions
[Translation from G. Steindorff
1946
Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery
p. 56
no. 164] Inscriptions on front: “Osiris Sheshonq
the blessed (true of voice) before Osiris” and “Osiris
who is in the divine hall.” Inscriptions around base from right front: “An offering which the king gives to Osiris
lord of the divine hall
that he may give all good and pure things on which the gods live
to the Osiris
the excellent
who is the … of the Amun temple of the third phyle
Sheshonq
the blessed
son of the divine father Pe-kher-Khons (Pchorchonsis)
the blessed
born of the chantress of Amon-re…” On rear column
the “Saitic Formula”: “The local god of the divine father and prophet-priest of Amun in Epet-sewet
the praised and high-spirited Sheshonq
the blessed
son of the divine father Pe-kher-Khons
the blessed
[is] behind
like the Heliopolitan (sic).”
dynasty
26th Dynasty
med
green basalt
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6182
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EGY
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none
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