A Votive Gift for the God Amun: The Stelophorous Statue of Neferhebef (Turin Cat. 3025)

The Museo Egizio, Turin, holds a quartzite stelophorous statue (Cat. 3025) acquired in 1824 as part of the Drovetti collection. The statue is inscribed with the name of its dedicator, Neferhebef, who bears the title "guardian of the treasury" ( zꜣ.wty-pr-ḥḏ ). This object is particularly interesting, because the text on the stela contains phrases that are different from those usually found on New Kingdom stelophorous statues. Specifically, instead of the canonical solar hymn there is an invocation to Amun alongside a zoomorphic representation of the god as a ram. The statue also presents a so far unique case, to the author’s knowledge, of an inscription on the underside of the base.