Relief with cartouches of Psammuthis

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393 B.C. · Sandstone · Egyptian Art

After the long Persian domination, the desire for building and renovation was strongly manifested in the 29th dynasty even before the grand temple programs of the 30th dynasty. Psammuthis only reigned for one year, and may have been a southern challenger to the son of his predecessor Nepherites. Even so, he appears to have maintained in Thebes a program of growth and building first envisioned by his predecessor Nepherities and reaching its culmination in the reign of his successor Achoris. This block was obtained in Luxor and is very similar to one oriented in the opposite direction that had been reused in a village near Luxor and was acquired by Lepsius for Berlin . It has been conjectured to come from the restoration of the magazine for offerings to the south of the Sacred Lake at Karnak that was partly and perhaps wholly the work of Psammuthis. The block shows the enthroned god Khonsu to the right extending life to the Horus-name and nomen of Psammuthis, followed by the standard phrase "given all life, all joy, forever."

Artist

Unknown

Date

393 B.C.

Medium

Sandstone

Department

Egyptian Art

Credit line

Rogers Fund, 1927