Statue
private statue
11.1cm
31.9cm
limestone
19.0cm
Limestone kneeling statuette of Overseer of the Treasury and Scribe, Sety, with an undecorated back pillar. Sety is represented worshipping Ra with raised hands, inscription in sunken relief preserved on the garment contains the prayer to Ra. Colours are well preserved: body is painted red, garment - white and hieroglyphs - yellow. Right hand and right corner of base are missing. The inscription does not contain any royal name, the statue is dated to the early 18th dynasty, probably reign of Hatshepsut, based on the stylistic features.[1]
Footnotes
From Abbott Collection.
Museum object
Provenance is uncertain. B.V. Bothmer is convinced that it comes from Thebes, on the web page of the Brooklyn Museum Saqqara is given as the place of provenance.
Bibliography:
- Bothmer, Bernard V., Private Sculpture of Dynasty XVIII in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum Annual 8, 1966-1967, 64-67, Fig(s). 9-12
- Bonomi, Joseph, Catalogue of a Collection of Egyptian Antiquities, the Property of Henry Abbott, Esq., M.D., s.l. 1846, 4, no. 39
- Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities of the New York Historical Society, New York 1873, 10, no. 92
- Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities of the New York Historical Society, New York 1915, 6, no. 93
- Winlock, Herbert Eustis, Statue of the Steward Roy Singing the Psalm to Rē', Journal of Egyptian Archaeology VI.1, 1920, 3, n. 2
- Hornemann, Bodil, Types of Ancient Egyptian Statuary III, Copenhagen 1957, Pl(s). 632
- Vandier, Jacques, Manuel d’archéologie égyptienne, Tome III. Les grandes époques. La statuaire, Paris 1958, 473, 483, 494, Pl(s). CLXI.2
- Moss, Rosalind L.B., Porter, Bertha, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings I. Theban Necropolis. Part 2. Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries, 2nd ed., London 1964, 784
- Stewart, H.M., -, Bulletin of the Institute of Archaeology (University of London) 4, 1964, 167