Group statue of Thoth-ibis and devotee on a base inscribed for Padihorsiese

Group statue of Thoth-ibis and devotee on a base inscribed for Padihorsiese

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The elements of this group all appear to be ancient, and the arrangement is found in other statuettes, but it seems that this group itself was constituted secondarily in ancient or in modern times. Traces on the upper side of the base show it originally supported a striding ibis. The offering formula on the base indicates that the original donation recorded on the base was made for the benefit of Padihorsiese through the agency of a servant of the ibis cult, a donation procedure only recorded in the 7th and 6th centuries B.C.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Group statue of Thoth-ibis and devotee on a base inscribed for PadihorsieseGroup statue of Thoth-ibis and devotee on a base inscribed for PadihorsieseGroup statue of Thoth-ibis and devotee on a base inscribed for PadihorsieseGroup statue of Thoth-ibis and devotee on a base inscribed for PadihorsieseGroup statue of Thoth-ibis and devotee on a base inscribed for Padihorsiese

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.