statue
- Museum number
- EA1085
- Description
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Limestone block-statue. At the front of the legs is a representation in the round of Osiris, flanked by relief representations of Isis and Horus. Hieroglyphic inscriptions are present on the back-pillar and on all sides of the base. They identify the owner, Parenu, as a ‘God’s Father (senior priest) of Amun-Ra’ and as a ‘chief of servants of the bedroom of Pharaoh’.
- Dimensions
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Height: 35 centimetres (object)
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Height: 40 centimetres (on fixed stone base)
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Width: 24.20 centimetres (fixed stone base)
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Width: 21.50 centimetres (object)
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Depth: 30.50 centimetres (fixed stone base)
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Depth: 29 centimetres (object)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The statue would have been placed in a temple, perhaps that of Osiris in Abydos.
Published:
PM viii, p. 961.
Regulski, I. (ed.), 2022. Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt, pp. 170-1
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2022-2023 13 Oct-19 Feb, London, BM, Hieroglyphs: unlocking ancient Egypt
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA1085
- Registration number
- 1891,0511.203
