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Description: | Headless torso from polished basalt statue of Horwedja, back inscribed with two short horizontal lines over two columns of hieroglyphs, now filled with white for legibility: 'revered before the dual king Wehemibra (Nekau) who is like the sun, official of the nobility (iry-pat), foremost of action (haty-a), overseer of the frontier regions Horwedja, he says: I am one commissioned in many works upon the mountain [...] to make great obelisks of granite, and all monuments of greywacke and granite'. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=Dynasty 26; start=-664; end=-525 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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