Padiiset's Statue

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 an unknown location in the Egyptian delta which includes an inscription dated to the Third Intermediate Period of Egypt referring to Canaan and Philistia (Palestine). The statue was purchased by Henry Walters in 1928, and is now in the Walters Art Museum.

It is the second – and last – known Egyptian reference to Canaan, coming more than 300 years after the preceding known inscription. 'The Canaan' in this inscription, and several others from ancient Egypt, is thought to be referencing the city of Gaza. This inscription also refers to Philistia as a toponym, as opposed to an ethnicon (ie. Philistines or Peleset), as is the case in other older Egyptian inscriptions.