About the Artwork
The small Seated Scribe was once part of a votive offering to Thoth, the patron god of writing. It is a particularly graceful example of the artistic production during the reign of Amenhotep III (1391–53 BCE) in the New Kingdom.
Seated Scribe
between 1391 and 1353 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Graywacke
Overall: 2 1/2 × 2 1/2 × 2 1/4 inches (6.4 × 6.4 × 5.7 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass and Constance Haass
31.70
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
None
Provenance
Raife. by 1925, dealer, Kalibdjian Freres (Paris, France). Haass. 1931-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Third Loan Exhibition of Old Masters. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, March 22-April 4, 1926, cat. 66, pp. iv , xxxviii.
Mehmet Aga-Oglu. "A Group of Egyptian Sculpture." Bulletin of the DIA XIII, 3 (December 1931): p. 26-28. ( ill.).
Bulletin of the DIA XIII, 5 (February 1932): p. 60.
Treasuries of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1960, p. 15 (ill.).
Treasuries of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1963, p. 15 (ill.).
Treasuries of the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1966, p. 17 (ill.).
Peck, William H. "The Present State of Egyptian Art in Detroit." Connoisseur (December, 1970): p. 269 (fig.3).
_____________. "Two Seated Scribes of Dynasty Eighteen." Journal of Egyptian Archeology 64 (1978): pp. 72-75 (pls. XII-XIII).
Selected Works from the Detroit Institute of Arts. 1979, p. 38. (ill.).
Family Art Game. DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press. April 27, 1980, p 26 (ill.).
Peck, William H. "Egyptian Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts." American Research Center in Egypt Newsletter 122 (Summer 1983): p. 5.
100 Masterworks from the Detroit Institute of Arts. New York, 1985, pp. 22-23 (ill.).
Family Art Game. DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit News. April 14, 1985, p. 25 (ill.).
Family Art Game. DIA Advertising Supplement, Detroit Free Press. May 18, 1986, p. 28 (ill.).
Peck, William H. "Detroit and the Ancient World." Minerva 2, 5 (September-October 1991): p. 22 (ill.).
_____________. "Egypt at the Detroit Institute of Arts: A History of the Growth of the Collection." KMT 2, 3 (Fall 1991): pp. 13, 16, 68 (ill.).
______________. The Detroit Institute of Arts: A Brief History. Detroit, 1991, p. 109.
Family Art Game: Looking to Learn. DIA Advertising Supplement, The Detroit Free Press. April 26, 1992, p. 22 (ill.).
Henshaw, Julia P., ed. A Visitors Guide: The Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995 p. 102 (ill.).
Family Art Game: Dress for the Occasion. DIA Advertising Supplement, The Detroit Free Press. April 28, 1996, p. 22 (ill.).
DIA Art Game: Art Speaks. The Detroit Free Press. April 26, 1998, p. 22.
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Egyptian, Seated Scribe, between 1391 and 1353 BCE, graywacke. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Lillian Henkel Haass and Constance Haass, 31.70.
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