AN EGYPTIAN GRANO-DIORITE BLOCK STATUE OF THE CHIEF OF PHYSICIANS AND PRIEST, PA'AN-MENIU
DYNASTY XXII-XXV, CIRCA 750-650 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN GRANO-DIORITE BLOCK STATUE OF THE CHIEF OF PHYSICIANS AND PRIEST, PA'AN-MENIU DYNASTY XXII-XXV, CIRCA 750-650 B.C. Seated on a cushion, hands crossed with his right fist clenched, the front incised with the standing figure of the leonine-headed goddess Sekhmet (the patroness of doctors), being approached by the falcon-headed sun god Haroeris and his human consort; proper right side with Amen-re, Mut, and falcon-headed Khonsu; the back with procession of Osiris, Horus, and Isis; proper left side, facing in the opposite direction, Ptah, Sekhmet and Nefertem; with htp-di-nsw formula around the base invoking "Osiris-Wennefer, the great god, ruler of Eternity...of Heliopolis, that they might give life ... to the God's Father of Amonrasonter (Amen-re, king of the gods), the God's Father of Banebdjedu , the Priest of Ptah-nefer-pehty , the Chief of Physicians of Upper and Lower Egypt, Pa'an-meniu , son of Nesptah , begotten through Mehit-n-wawat ", his name, lineage, and titles repeated on the front and back (where the invocation is to Osiris and Horus son of Isis), repaired 16½ in. (42 cm.) high
AN EGYPTIAN GRANO-DIORITE BLOCK STATUE OF THE CHIEF OF PHYSICIANS AND PRIEST, PA'AN-MENIU
DYNASTY XXII-XXV, CIRCA 750-650 B.C.
AN EGYPTIAN GRANO-DIORITE BLOCK STATUE OF THE CHIEF OF PHYSICIANS AND PRIEST, PA'AN-MENIU DYNASTY XXII-XXV, CIRCA 750-650 B.C. Seated on a cushion, hands crossed with his right fist clenched, the front incised with the standing figure of the leonine-headed goddess Sekhmet (the patroness of doctors), being approached by the falcon-headed sun god Haroeris and his human consort; proper right side with Amen-re, Mut, and falcon-headed Khonsu; the back with procession of Osiris, Horus, and Isis; proper left side, facing in the opposite direction, Ptah, Sekhmet and Nefertem; with htp-di-nsw formula around the base invoking "Osiris-Wennefer, the great god, ruler of Eternity...of Heliopolis, that they might give life ... to the God's Father of Amonrasonter (Amen-re, king of the gods), the God's Father of Banebdjedu , the Priest of Ptah-nefer-pehty , the Chief of Physicians of Upper and Lower Egypt, Pa'an-meniu , son of Nesptah , begotten through Mehit-n-wawat ", his name, lineage, and titles repeated on the front and back (where the invocation is to Osiris and Horus son of Isis), repaired 16½ in. (42 cm.) high
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