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| Keywords: Egyptian - Seated Statue of Nehy - Walters 22106.jpg Depicted much as she would have appeared in life the Chantress Nehy sits on a chair and holds in her left hand the symbol of her profession a sistrum or rattle used in the worship of the goddess Hathor Judging from her fine clothing and elegant hairstyle as well as the scale and quality of her statue we may assume that Nehy was able to afford a fine burial to ensure her place in the afterlife Most likely this statue one of two known graced a tomb at Saqqara the ancient necropolis of Memphis ca 1250 1230 BC New Kingdom carved limestone cm 132 45 1 87 8 accession number 22 106 22976 Château des Aygalades near Marseilles Jacques Seligmann Paris 1917 by purchase from an unnamed Marseilles dealer Henri Daguerre and Joseph Brummer between 1917 and 1921 by joint purchase Judge Samuel Untermeyer New York 1922 by purchase Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1925 Translation Inscribed down front of skirt Everything which goes forth before the lords of the necropolis bread beer oxen and fowl wine incense libation-water and all good and pure things for the Ka of the Osiris the Mistress of the House the Chantress of the Mistress of Heaven She of the Southern Sycamore Hathor Nehy True of Voice Mistress of House Mistress of Heaven Women in Ancient Egypt Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn; Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati 1996-1997 place of origin Saqqara Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian statues in the Walters Art Museum Statues of the Egyptian New Kingdom | ||||
