Complete Description
Buste d'oushebti momiforme, coiffé de la perruque tripartite dégageant les oreilles, paré d'un large collier ousekh, les bras croisés sur la poitrine tenant les instruments aratoires sculptés en léger relief. Le bas du corps très largement lacunaire comporte des fragments de l'inscription hiéroglyphique qui reprenait le traditionnel chapitre VI du Livre des Morts et donnait le nom du défunt, le prêtre-lecteur et magicien Padiimenipet (Padiaménopé).
Manques visibles.
Haut. : 15 cm
Collection Jean-Jacques Rotthier (1932 - 2009), puis par descendance
The tomb TT 33 of Padiamunipet (also rendered as Petamenope or Petamenophis) has been known since the early 18th century, thanks to travelers such as Richard Pococke, and it was studied more systematically in the early 19th century by Jean-François Champollion, who identified certain inscriptions and made the first transcription of the priest’s name. Research intensified in the late 19th century with Egyptologists like Johannes Dümichen, who documented the tomb’s plans and hieroglyphic texts, establishing TT 33 as one of the largest and most thoroughly recorded private tombs in the Theban necropolis.
Alongside these explorations, numerous funerary statuettes bearing Padiamenopé’s name and titles were removed from their original context and incorporated into prominent museum collections (such as the British Museum, the Louvre, and the Museo Egizio in Turin) as well as private collections. These statuettes are frequently fragmentary or partially damaged, either reflecting funerary practices or resulting from the dispersal of objects outside the tomb.
