Upper Portion of a Striding Statue of a Priest

Upper Portion of a Striding Statue of a Priest

To the right of the central figure of a priest is the standard of a human-headed god wearing a crown with horns and double plumes, perhaps Ptah-Sokar-Osiris. To the left is the standard of the lion-headed goddess Sakhmet, who sports a solar disk.
These standards are indications of privilege representing the king's essential life force, known as his ka. They enabled the bearer to hear prayers and to forward them to the gods. Such standard-bearing sculptures were popular in Dynasty XIX, and this fragment can be dated to that time by the type of wig the priest wears and by his downward-slanting, almond-shaped eyes. Most comparable sculptures, however, bear only one standard, usually the ram-headed god Amun.

• Medium: Stone
• Place Made: Egypt
• Dates: ca. 1295-1185 B.C.E.
• Dynasty: XIX Dynasty
• Period: New Kingdom
• Dimensions: 5 1/2 x 7 5/16 x 4 1/8 in. (14 x 18.5 x 10.5 cm)  (show scale)
  
• Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
• Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
• Exhibitions:
  • Divine Felines: Cats of Ancient Egypt (July 24, 2013 through January 2016)
  • Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity (On view since April 12, 2003)
• Accession Number: 71.37.1
• Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
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• Caption: Upper Portion of a Striding Statue of a Priest, ca. 1295-1185 B.C.E. Stone, 5 1/2 x 7 5/16 x 4 1/8 in. (14 x 18.5 x 10.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum,

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