Statuette of Imhotep,

664–204 B.C.

Statuette of Imhotep

664–204 B.C.

Bronze

figurine: 9.8 x 2.3 x 4.1 cm (3 7/8 x 15/16 x 1 5/8 in.) including base: 11.4 x 3.3 x 6.8 cm (4 7/16 x 1 5/16 x 2 11/16 in.)

Gift of Carl Otto von Kienbusch, Class of 1906, in memory of Mrs. G. C. Currier, in 1927

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See files for note on inscription (written on letterhead of Department of Egyptian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; not in the handwriting of W. Hayes, whose signature is on letters in files, and the paper looks a bit older than his period of office at the Met.; possibly it is the handwriting of a curator at the time of the gift, at Kienbusch's request). On the papyrus roll: 'Imhotep son of Ptah (?).' On the base: 'Imhotep, endowed with life forever, son of Ptah (?).' The latter part of both inscriptions is very uncertain. 'Son of P.' is a common epithet of Imhotep but here we may have the name of the owner or the donor of the statuette, perhaps Pedy-Hor.

Egyptian (ancient)

Twenty-sixth Dynasty

figurines, metalwork, bronzes

bronze

men, scrolls (information artifacts), hieroglyphics, relief, grooving, incising, scribes, figures (representations)