Dark stone statue showing a headless man presenting a smaller statue.
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In this dark stone statue, a man, now headless and legless, stands with his hands resting on the shoulders of a smaller statue. His chest is bare, and the loss for his head begins around his clavicle. The statue before him, depicting the God Osiris, is about waist height. Osiris is in his partially mummified form, with his arms crossed and holding a crook and flail. The rest of his limbs are indistinct in their wrappings. He is wearing a long bulbous crown with a cobra at the brow and feathers on either side and has a braided false beard.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1983.173
Title
Kapefenhamontu Presenting an Image of Osiris
Classification
Sculpture
Work Type
sculpture
Date
600-300 BCE
Places
Creation Place: Ancient & Byzantine World, Africa, Egypt (Ancient)
Period
Late Period to Ptolemaic
Culture
Egyptian
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/289212

Location

Location
Level 3, Room 3740, Ancient Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Art, Ancient Egypt: Art for Eternity
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Physical Descriptions

Medium
Siltstone
Technique
Carved
Dimensions
28 cm h x 10.7 cm w x 13 cm d (11 x 4 3/16 x 5 1/8 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • inscription: The venerated one before (his) city god, the God's Father of Amun, Kapefenhamontu, justified, he says: "O my lord Amun, who made heaven and created earth, sole god, without there being [...] before your temple. I contented myself with Maat, whom your Majesty loves. May you praise all priests or learned ones who read the writings on this statue [...]."

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Eric Schroeder collection, Cambridge, MA, (by 1971), by inheritance; to Mrs. Eric (Margaret F.) Schroeder, Cambridge, MA, (1971-1983), gift; to the Fogg Art Museum, 1983.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Mrs. Eric Schroeder
Accession Year
1983
Object Number
1983.173
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • 32Q: 3740 Egyptian, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 01/01/2050

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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