Statue of the Overseer of Stonemasons Senbebu and Family

(1) The two inscriptions on both sides of the man indicate that the statue was dedicated to Senbebu by his son:

(a statue) which his son, the Overseer of a Side (of Workers) of the necropolis-men, Ptahwer made for him
jr n=f zA=f jm.j-r'-gs-n-Xr.tjw-nTr ptH-wr



(2) Similarly, two mirroring inscriptions are written on the women's lap:

Offering which the king gives (and) Satet, Mistress of Elephantine,
May she give invocation offerings, bread and beer, oxen and fowl, alabaster and garments

Htp Di nswt sTy.t nb(.t)-Ab.w
Di=s pr.t xrw t' Hnq.t jH.w Apd.w Ss mnx.t (j)x.t nb.t nfr(.t)

They continue to the side of each woman and below them, on one side partly erased:

On the man's right-

to the kA of the Mistress of the House Abetib born of Henut
n kA n nb(.t)-[pr] Ab.t-jb jr.t n Hn.wt


and - on the other side-

[n kA n nb(.t)-pr] Pr.yt jr. n Hn.wt
to the kA of the Mistress of the House Perit, born of Henut




(3) The inscription on the man's lap reads:

Htp Di nswt
sTj.t nb(.t)-Ab.w
Di=s pr.t xrw t' Hnq.t jH.w Apd.w Ss mnx.t
n kA n jm.j-r' gs n Xr.tjw-nTr

Offering which the king gives
(and) Satet, Mistress of Elephantine,
May she give invocation offerings, bread and beer, oxen and fowl, alabaster and garments
to the ka of the Overseer of a Side (of Workers) of the necropolis-men



(4) Below, his name and filiation appears as:

The man - Hotepsobek('s son) Senbebu, born of Kayt, Htp-sbk snbbw jr(.w) n kA.yt






Niv Allon 2018

Purchased from Michael Abemayor, 1956.

Oppenheim, Adela 2015. "Statue of the Overseer of Stonemasons Senbebu and Family." In Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom, edited by Adela Oppenheim, Dorothea Arnold, Dieter Arnold, and Kei Yamamoto. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, pp. 155–56, no. 89.

Connor, Simon 2020. Être et paraître, Statues royales et privées de la fin du Moyen Empire et de la Deuxième Période intermédiaire (1850-1550 av. J.-C.), Middle Kingdom Studies, 10. London: Golden House Publications, p. 363; Fig. 2.5.2g..