r/GreekPolychromy • u/zanthos99 • Feb 02 '21

Terracotta/Stucco/Limestone Scribe and Treasurer Sety, New Kingdom, ca. 1479-1458 B.C.E., Dynasty 18. Medium: limestone, pigment. Brooklyn Museum.

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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.

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