Scribe and Treasurer, Sety
Description
Object Label: 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. 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.
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A statue of an ancient Egyptian standing figure with inscriptions on the skirt.
This statue depicts an ancient Egyptian figure standing with one arm raised and the other missing due to damage. The figure is wearing a traditional Egyptian headdress and a long skirt covered in hieroglyphic inscriptions. The body features a naturalistic but slightly stylized depiction, typical of Egyptian art. The surface coloration suggests remnants of original paint, with red and natural tones.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.263E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4003 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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