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Seated Statuette of Sekhemka

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Description

Object Label: This diorite statue was possibly a reused royal statue, which was provided with a limestone base painted to imitate the more expensive diorite. It also combines the base with an offering table. The statue was repaired in antiquity, a fact deduced from the round hole (visible in the break), which was made with an ancient drill. Since this type of stone and this seated pose were nearly always limited to royal statues in the Fifth Dynasty, it is likely that Sekhemka repaired a broken and discarded royal statue. The beautifully carved limestone base illustrates the offerings, such as bread, beer, cattle, and fowl, that Sekhemka hoped for in the afterlife. Caption: Seated Statuette of Sekhemka, ca. 2400–2345 B.C.E.. Anorthosite gneiss, limestone, pigment, 15 1/4 x 7 7/8 x 16 1/4 in., 56 lb. (38.7 x 20 x 41.3 cm, 25.4kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.23Ea-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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 headless seated statue on a rectangular base with inscriptions.

The artifact is a stone statue depicting a seated figure, though the head and upper torso are missing. The figure is seated on a block-like throne, with inscriptions along the base. The statue is carved from stone and shows signs of weathering.

funerary Middle Kingdom fragmentary
Materials stone
Signs water ripple ×2 reed leaf
Visible text "jmꜣḫw r npwt"

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Stone

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 37.23Ea-b tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3939 tier-2
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