Skip Navigation

Collection Menu
<em>Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess</em>. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_view1.jpg)
Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_view1.jpg)
<em>Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess</em>. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_view1.jpg)

Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_view1.jpg)

<em>Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess</em>. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_side1.jpg)

Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_side1.jpg)

<em>Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess</em>. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_detail1.jpg)

Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_detail1.jpg)

<em>Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess</em>. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_side2.jpg)

Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_side2.jpg)

<em>Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess</em>. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_back.jpg)

Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_back.jpg)

<em>Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess</em>. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_detail3.jpg)

Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_detail3.jpg)

<em>Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess</em>. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_detail2.jpg)

Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_detail2.jpg)

DOWNLOAD

Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Egyptian alabaster (calcite)
  • Place Made: Egypt
    • PERIOD Ptolemaic (probably)
    DIMENSIONS 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm)  (show scale)
    COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 36.739
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Louis Herse
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Lower part of alabaster statue of a woman probably a queen or goddess. The figure is seated on a conventional stone throne elaborately decorated. The base is decorated with a series of hieroglyphs meaning “all life and wealth”. In front the throne has the two Goddesses, Merty of Upper and Lower Egypt. On the sides the Genii of the Nile of both Upper and Lower Egypt kneel in front of the sign of union. At the back the protecting Solar Hawk is supported by two kneeling Kings. Condition: The upper part of statue is missing, the right knee is badly chipped together with right foot. The entire surface has been considerably weathered and is chipped in several places.
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_view1.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.36.739_view1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2014
    "CUR" at the beginning of an image file name means that the image was created by a curatorial staff member. These study images may be digital point-and-shoot photographs, when we don\'t yet have high-quality studio photography, or they may be scans of older negatives, slides, or photographic prints, providing historical documentation of the object.
    RIGHTS STATEMENT Creative Commons-BY
    You may download and use Brooklyn Museum images of this three-dimensional work in accordance with a Creative Commons license. Fair use, as understood under the United States Copyright Act, may also apply. Please include caption information from this page and credit the Brooklyn Museum. If you need a high resolution file, please fill out our online application form (charges apply). For further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch. For more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright. If you have any information regarding this work and rights to it, please contact copyright@brooklynmuseum.org.
    RECORD COMPLETENESS
    Not every record you will find here is complete. More information is available for some works than for others, and some entries have been updated more recently. Records are frequently reviewed and revised, and we welcome any additional information you might have.
    <em>Lower Part of Statue of a Seated Goddess</em>. Egyptian alabaster (calcite), 7 5/16 x 3 11/16 x 4 1/2 in. (18.5 x 9.3 x 11.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Louis Herse, 36.739. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.36.739_view1.jpg)

    RELATED OBJECTS

    Bowl with Lug Handles Dish in the Form of a Duck Model Food Offering of Trussed Duck Hollow Figure of a Trussed Duck Kohl Tube in the Form of a Fish Double Kohl Tube with Applicator Canopic Jar with Cover Canopic Jar with Cover Canopic Jar with Cover Canopic Jar with Cover Shallow Dish with Low Cylindrical Foot Shabty of Nofer Semi-chalice Fragment of a Model Obelisk Jar with High Cylindrical Neck Pear-Shaped Kohl Pot Tazza Egg-Shaped Mace Head Recumbent Lion Head and Forepart of Body of Sphinx Funerary Bust of Male Head of Youth Head of a King Upper Part of a Cippus Figure of Bes in Relief Headdress from a Statue Head