Autobiography of Udjahorresne
Commentary
Autobiography of Udjahorresne
Hard green stone naophorous statue of Udjahorresne, 0.70+m tall; Vatican Museums (probably from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli). c.519 BC.
M. Brosius, The Persian Empire from Cyrus II to Artaxerxes I (2000) no.20; A. Kuhrt, The Persian Empire: A Corpus of Sources from the Achaemenid Period (2007) pp.117-22; and here.
The autobiographical inscription of Udjahorresne, inscribed on his statue after his death, is one of our chief contemporary sources for the Persian conquest of Egypt and Cambyses' policies towards the Egyptians.