These two wooden Ka statues represent the brothers Nebreshy and Amenhotep. They both have shaved heads and they wear elaborately pleated linen kilts. The statue bases are inscribed in hieroglyphs with a ritual funerary formula invoking Osiris, the god of the Underworld, from the parents of the two brothers.
M13505 - A boon which the king gives to Osiris, that he may give invocation offerings of bread and beer, oxen, fowl, alabaster, clothing and unguent, every good and pure thing, for the Ka of Amenhotep, true of voice, by his father Nefer and his mother Mose, who cause that his name shall live. M13506 - A boon which the king gives to Osiris, that he may give invocation offerings of bread and beer, oxen, fowl, alabaster, clothing and unguent, every good and pure thing, for the Ka of Nebreshy, true of voice, by his father Nefer and his mother Mose, who cause that his name shall live.
Bibliography
Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 39; pl.48.
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