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<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.263E_threequarter_PS9.jpg)
Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.263E_threequarter_PS9.jpg)
<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.263E_threequarter_PS9.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.263E_threequarter_PS9.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.263E_threequarter_detail_PS9.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.263E_threequarter_detail_PS9.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.37.263E_NegD1_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.37.263E_NegD1_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_erg456.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_erg456.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.37.263E_NegH3_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.37.263E_NegH3_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegA_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegA_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegD_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegD_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegH-1_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegH-1_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegG_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegG_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegC_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegC_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegB_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegB_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegF_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegF_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegE_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegE_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegH-2_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegH-2_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegH-3_print_bw.jpg)

Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.37.263E_NegH-3_print_bw.jpg)

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Scribe and Treasurer, Sety

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

This statue of Sety, a scribe and superintendent of the treasury, is an early example of a non-royal person shown kneeling. The figure’s pose, the obeliskshaped back pillar (a solar symbol), and the inscribed prayer to the sun-god Re indicate that the statue was set into a niche above Sety’s tomb, facing east to greet the sunrise.

Later kneeling figures of this type often hold a stela inscribed with a prayer, eliminating the need for clumsy stone bridges like the ones that reinforce the hands in this work.
MEDIUM Limestone, pigment
  • Reportedly From: Thebes, Egypt
    • DATES ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E.
    DYNASTY Dynasty 18
    PERIOD New Kingdom
    DIMENSIONS 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg)  (show scale)
    COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 37.263E
    CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Kneeling statue of a scribe who raised his hands in worship. Wig is of the MK type but without striations. Overall archaic appearance due to the shape of the eyes, square beard, and stone fill-ins between the upper arms and the raised hands. Sety's garment ends below the knees and is covered in deeply cut inscriptions. Another line of inscription on the base is mostly lost. Condition: Left arm is missing from the level of the elbow. The nose is chipped and the right eye and brow are damaged. The left corner of the base is missing in the front and the right front corner is chipped. The right front chip has carried away part of the inscription. The back pillar is chipped in numerous spots. The paint layer is sound, the skin being a nice reddish brown. The hieroglyphs still retain their red paint. Discoloration is found on the left side of the skirt.
    EXHIBITIONS
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Scribe and Treasurer, Sety, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.263E_threequarter_PS9.jpg)
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    <em>Scribe and Treasurer, Sety</em>, ca. 1479–1458 B.C.E. Limestone, pigment, 13 × 4 × 7 1/2 in., 10.5 lb. (33 × 10.2 × 19.1 cm, 4.76kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.263E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 37.263E_threequarter_PS9.jpg)

    TAGS

    Egyptian
    Egypt
    Sculpture
    Kneeling Statue
    Scribe
    Treasurer Sety
    Limestone
    Painted
    Saqqara, Egypt
    18th Dynasty
    New Kingdom
    Hieroglyphs
    red
    Dynasty 18
    Eighteenth Dynasty
    Dynasty XVIII
    New York Historic Society
    Beard

    TAGS

    Egyptian
    Egypt
    Sculpture
    Kneeling Statue
    Scribe
    Treasurer Sety
    Limestone
    Painted
    Saqqara, Egypt
    18th Dynasty
    New Kingdom
    Hieroglyphs
    red
    Dynasty 18
    Eighteenth Dynasty
    Dynasty XVIII
    New York Historic Society
    Beard

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