A copper-alloy votive statuette titled "Imhotep, donated by Padisu," Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 664 to 30 BCE, possibly from Memphis. The statuette shows the deified sage and physician Imhotep and records the name of the donor who dedicated it, a standard practice of the votive cult of Imhotep at Memphis and Saqqara. Held today by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 30.8.94, Egyptian Art department, Theodore M. Davis Collection, bequest of 1915.
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This source names Imhotep directly: "A copper-alloy votive statuette titled "Imhotep, donated by Padisu," Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 664 to 30 BCE, possibly from Memphis."
Source Imhotep, Donated by Padisu, accession 30.8.94 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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Source Imhotep, Donated by Padisu, accession 30.8.94 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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The Met's own title for this votive statuette names the subject outright, "Imhotep, donated by Padisu," a standard object type of the Late Period and Ptolemaic votive cult of the deified sage and physician Imhotep.
Source Imhotep, Donated by Padisu, accession 30.8.94 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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1. Imhotep, Donated by Padisu, accession 30.8.94 (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
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A copper-alloy votive statuette titled "Imhotep, donated by Padisu," Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 664 to 30 BCE, possibly from Memphis.
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