A Priest, Sebek-em-hat

ca. 1780 BCE

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About the Artwork

The standing statue of Sebek em hat can be identified as a leader of a group of priests in the temple of a deified king at Heliopolis (near Cairo).

Title A Priest, Sebek-em-hat

Artwork Date ca. 1780 BCE

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Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Egyptian

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Medium Polychromed limestone

Dimensions Overall: 19 × 6 1/2 × 10 1/4 inches (48.3 × 16.5 × 26 cm) Overall (base): 1 3/8 × 5 × 8 7/8 inches (3.5 × 12.7 × 22.5 cm) Overall (loose element): 1 1/4 × 6 1/2 × 1 1/8 inches (3.2 × 16.5 × 2.9 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department African Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 51.276

Markings

Inscriptions Inscribed, back pillar: [translated: A boon which the king gives to Anubis, Lord of Hen, that he may give a goodly burial to the Ka of the Phyle-Leader, Sebek-em-hat, begotten of Sebek-em-hat, born of Sit-hat-hor, the justified.] Inscribed, on base: [translated: A boon which the king gives to Ra-Atum, Lord of Heliopolis, and to Osiris, Lord of Busiris, the Great God, Lord of Abydos, that he may give an invocation consisting of bread and beer.] Inscribed, detached base: [translated: to the Ka of the Phyle Leader in the temple of Kha-kheper-Ra (Senusret II) in Heliopolis]

Provenance

(William E. Mansour);
1951-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

5000 Years of Egyptian Art and Civilization. Exh. brochure, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts. Dallas, March 5-26, 1950, (ill.).

Bulletin of the DIA 31, no. 3/4 (1951-52): p. 60, (ill.).

Vandier, J. Manuel d'Archéologie Égyptienne, vol. 3, pt. 1. Éditions A. et J. Picard et Cie: Paris, 1958, p. 227, no. 5.

Treasures of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1960, p. 17, (ill.); 1963, p. 17, (ill.); 1966, p. 20, (ill.).

Peck, William H. "The Present State of Egyptian Art in Detroit," Connoisseur (December 1970): p. 269, (ill.), p. 266.

The Detroit Institute of Arts Illustrated Handbook. 1971, pp. 26-27, (ill.).

Simpson, William Kelly. "A Statuette of a Devotee of Seth," Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, vol. 62. 1976, pp. 41-44, pl. VIII, VIIIA.

Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1979, p. 37, (ill.).

Peck, William H. "Egyptian Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts," American

Research Center in Egypt Newsletter, no. 122 (Summer 1983): p. 5, (ill.).

Peck, William H. "Egypt at the Detroit Institute of Arts: A History of the Growth of the Collection," and "Statue of the Priest Sebekemhet in the Detroit Institute of Arts," KMT, vol. 2, no. 3 (Fall 1991): pp. 1, 16, 20-21, 68, (ill.).

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Egyptian, A Priest, Sebek-em-hat, ca. 1780 BCE, polychromed limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Sarah Bacon Hill Fund, 51.276.