viernes, 20 de enero de 2023

Nefer HEb and Deded Nebu


 

Group statue of Nefer-heb and Dedet-nebu.
The head of the man and the breasts, shoulders and head of the woman are missing. The two figures are standing on a pedestal that is nearly square and are joined together by a back plate, which reaches their shoulders.
The man is wearing a short pleated kilt. His right hand is held next to his body, with the left he is holding his wife's hand. She is dressed in a long, close-fitting garment. Her hands are held the same way as the man's, albeit in mirror image. There are ten columns of text on top of the pedestal and on the back plate .
ELKAB/NEKHEB
Basalt
2ND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD
Inventory number 5046
KUNSTHISTORISCHES MUSEUM
FUNERARY TEXT: FORMULA Htp-di-nsw.t
(1) An offering, which the king gives to Nekheby, Lord (2) of Nekheb, for the Ka of the "One of the Ten of Upper Egypt" (3) Nefer-heb, true of voice.
(4) An offering, which the king gives to Nekhbet, for the Ka of his wife (5) the lady of the house Dedet-nebu, true of voice.
(6) An offering, which the King gives to Osiris, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, so that he may give a funerary offering of bread and beer, oxen and fowl and all good and pure things on which a god lives, for the Ka of the "One of the Ten of Upper Egypt" Nefer-heb, true of voice, the "Living one of the troop of the ruler" Sa-djedyt, true of voice, and Senetes-ankh(ty), true of voice. An offering, which the king (9) gives to the Ka of his wife, the lady of the house Dedet-nebu, true of voice, begotten by the citizen (10) Iky, true of voice, and born of the lady of the house Heket-nefer, true of voice.
Jaros-Deckert, B., Statuen des Mittleren Reichs und der 18. Dynastie. Corpus Antiquitatum Aegyptiacarum (1987) 25-33.
Delange, E., Rez. in: Bibliotheca Orientalis (BiOr) 46 (1989) 623.
Franke, D., Das Heiligtum des Heqaib auf Elephantine (Studien zur Archäologie und Geschichte Altägyptens (SAGA) 9, 1994) 78, 289.



 



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