This statue of general Petimuthes comes from Thebes. On the back-pillar is an inscription referring to a war fought in the East at the end of the second century BC; more specifically, it mentions Cleopatra III and her son Ptolemy X’s capture of the city of Ptolemais, present-day Acre in Galilee. Petimuthes wears the so-called “Persian” fringed garment, reserved to high dignitaries ever since the Late Period. The text on the back-pillar of the statue was completed with a fragment found in Karnak, where Petimuthes promoted the construction of a storehouse in the temple of Amon.
