Padiiset's Statue

Padiiset's Statue

Padiiset's Statue in the Walters Art Museum, showing the front and back views
Material	Basalt
Writing	Egyptian hieroglyphs
Created	1780-1700 BC (Inscription: 900-850 BC)
Discovered	1894
Present location	Walters Art Museum
Identification	22203

Padiiset's Statue or Pateese's Statue, also described as the Statue of a vizier usurped by Padiiset, is a basalt statue found in 1894 in the Egyptian delta which includes an inscription referring to trade between Canaan and Ancient Egypt during the Third Intermediate Period. It was purchased by Henry Walters in 1928, and is now in the Walters Art Museum.

It is the last known Egyptian reference to Canaan, coming more than 300 years after the preceding known inscription.

The statue is made of black basalt and measures 30.5 x 10.25 x 11.5 cm, and was created in the Middle Kingdom period to commemorate a government vizier. Scholars believe that a millennium later the original inscription was erased and replaced with inscriptions on the front and back representing "Pa-di-iset, son of Apy" and worshipping the gods Osiris, Horus, and Isis.

The inscriptions read:

Ka of Osiris: Pa-di-iset, the justified, son of Apy.
The only renowned one, the impartial envoy/commissioner/messenger of/for Canaan of/for Peleset, Pa-di-iset, son of Apy.