Statue of the Priest, Pa-ef-tchau-em-awy-Bastet

between 595 and 589 BCE

Egyptian

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Statue of the Priest, Pa-ef-tchau-em-awy-Bastet

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Title Statue of the Priest, Pa-ef-tchau-em-awy-Bastet

Artwork Date between 595 and 589 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

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Egyptian

Medium Basalt

Dimensions Overall: 9 1/4 × 2 3/4 × 2 3/4 inches (23.5 × 7 × 7 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department African Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. 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. 1984.25

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Inscriptions Inscribed, back pillar, two columns: [translated: The divine father, the one who is initiated in the secret of Heliopolis, Har-Si-Esis, the son of the divine Father ,Pa-ef-tchau-em-Awy-Bastet, son of Noub-yti, daughter of the divine Imy-khet (or Imi-atef) Ched... | The son is the one who acts for his father and who cares for the revival of his name, Pa-ef-tchau-em-awy-Bastet, son of Nekhet-bastet-r-ou, daughter of the divine Priest Ouab]

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(Alan Brandt, Inc., New York, New York, USA)

1984-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Daressy. Notes et Remarques in Rec. de Trav., vol. XIV. (1893): p. 183, no. LXXXI.

Corpus of Late Egyptian Sculpture, no. Z-57. Brooklyn Museum. [unpublished].

Catalogue of the MacGregor Collection of Egyptian Antiquities. Sales cat., Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge. London, 1922, cat. no. 1622, p. 211.

Porter, Bertha and Rosalind L. B. Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings. Revision, Jaromir Malek, ed. vol. IV: Lower and Middle Egypt. Clarendon Press: Oxford, 1968, p. 47, 5d.

Bresciani. Oriens Antiquus, vol. IX, 1970, p. 214.

Bulletin of the DIA 52, no. 7 (1973): p. 12.

Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 2 (1985) p. 8 (fig. 5).

Image and Artifact: Ancient Art from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA statewide travelling exhibition. Detroit, February 5, 1984-December 16, 1985, cat. no. 31, p. 8.

"Family Art Game: The Art of Diversity," The Detroit Free Press (April 28, 1991): p. 3 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

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Egyptian, Statue of the Priest, Pa-ef-tchau-em-awy-Bastet, between 595 and 589 BCE, basalt. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Shelden III Fund and Mr. and Mrs. Alvan Macauley, Jr. Fund, 1984.25.