Padiiset's Statue

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Padiiset's Statue

Padiiset's Statue in the Walters Art Museum, showing the front and back views
Material Basalt
Writing Egyptian hieroglyphs
Created 1780-1700 BC (Inscription: 900-850 BC)
Discovered 1894
Present location Walters Art Museum
Identification 22203

Padiiset's Statue, also described as the Statue of a vizier usurped by Padiiset, is a basalt statue found in 1894 in the Egyptian delta which includes an inscription referring to trade between Canaan and Ancient Egypt during the Third Intermediate Period.[1][2][3] It was purchased by Henry Walters in 1928, and is now in the Walters Art Museum.

The statue is made of black basalt and measures 30.5 x 10.25 x 11.5 cm, and was created in the Middle Kingdom period to commemorate a government vizier. Scholars believe that a millennium later the original inscription was erased and replaced with inscriptions on the front and back representing "Pa-di-iset, son of Apy" and worshipping the gods Osiris, Horus, and Isis.

The inscriptions read:

Ka of Osiris: Pa-di-iset, the justified, son of Apy.
The only renowned one, the impartial envoy/commissioner/messenger of/for Canaan of/for Peleset, Pa-di-iset, son of Apy.

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References

  1. ↑ Statue of a vizier usurped by Padiiset, at the Walters Art Museum
  2. ↑ The Statuette of an Egyptian Commissioner in Syria, Georg Steindorff, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Jun., 1939), pp. 30-33
  3. ↑ The Philistines in Transition: A History from Ca. 1000-730 B.C.E., Carl S. Ehrlich, p65
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