Priest
CultureEgyptian
Date664-525 B.C.E.
MediumCopper
DimensionsOverall: 4 5/8 × 1 5/8 × 2 1/4 inches (11.76 × 4.14 × 5.72 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number48-26
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
Gallery LabelHem-netjr, or "servant of god," is the Egyptian title for priests. In many instances theirs was a part-time job, sometimes lasting just for a few months.
This figure's shaved head and body define him as a priest. Humbly kneeling, he raises his hands in adoration of a now-unseen god.
This figure's shaved head and body define him as a priest. Humbly kneeling, he raises his hands in adoration of a now-unseen god.
With James E. Pullen, Oakland, CA, by 1948;
Purchased from Pullen by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1948.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 114.
Barbara Mendoza, “Everlasting Servants of the Gods: Bronze Priests of Ancient Egypt from the Middle Kingdom to the Greco-Roman Period,” (PhD diss., University of California, Berkeley, 2006), 201-02, 395, no. 153, plate 73.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 9, fig. 20.
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