Kneeling Man Holding a Statue of the God Osiris

between 626 and 525 BCE

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Egyptian: Daily Reverences, Level 1, West Wing

Kneeling Man Holding a Statue of the God Osiris

Kneeling Man Holding a Statue of the God Osiris: 1 of Collection Gallery

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About the Artwork

Title Kneeling Man Holding a Statue of the God Osiris

Artwork Date between 626 and 525 BCE

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Egyptian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Granite

Dimensions Overall: 11 7/8 × 4 1/4 × 6 7/8 inches (30.2 × 10.8 × 17.5 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department African Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Matilda R. Wilson Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 73.170

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Inscriptions Inscribed, back pillar: [translated: An offering which the king gives to Osiris, the great god, who is in Hut-Bit, that he may give funerary offerings of bread, beer, oxen, fowl and every good and sweet thing for the ka of the kherep-hut, servant of Horus wr-w3dty, prophet of Horus...of Hut-Bit, Hereferneith, son of the like-entitled, heralding prophet of Neith, Tjami, born of the lady of the house, head of the weavers of the Resenet, Tachebneith] Inscribed, base, left side: [translated: He says: o web-priests who go in and out in the temple of Neith, mistress of Sais, may you say after you have offered to the gods of the Saite nome: for the ka of the lord of..... by his city god, the kherep-hut, prophet of Horus wr-w3dty..."] Inscribed, base, front: [translated: the revered, praised and faithful by his father, mother and brethren, Psamtik] Inscribed, base, right side: [translated: His son who makes his name live, who gives bread to the hungry and clothes to the naked, the kherep-hut, prophet of Horus wr-w3dty, prophet of Horus...of the Hut-Bit, prophet of Horus renewer of births, Psamtik, born of the lady of the house, Tentmehenet] [Translation provided by Dr. H. De Meulenaere, Seminarie Voor Egyptologie, Belgium]

Provenance

MacGregor.
(Michel E. Abemayor);
1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Daressy. Rec. Trav. 14 (1893): p. 183, no. LXXXI [as from Sais].

Catalogue of the McGregor Collection of Egyptian Antiquities. Sales cat., Southeby, Wilkinson & Hodge. London, June 26-30 and July 3-6, 1922, p. 211, no. 22.

PM IV. p. 47-5d [objects from Sais].

Bresciani. Oriens Antiquus 9 (1970): p. 214.

Image and Artifact: Ancient Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA Statewide Services Travelling Exhibition. Detroit, 1984, cat. no. 31.

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Egyptian, Kneeling Man Holding a Statue of the God Osiris, between 626 and 525 BCE, granite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Matilda R. Wilson Fund, 73.170.