Date: Saturday, January 30, 2010
Time: 12:00pm - 3:00pm
Location: Brooklyn Museum of Art
Street: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY
Jabari Osaze (DjedenMaat Aten-Ra) and Anika Daniels-Osaze (Nfr-Ka Ma'at) will escort a group through a guided tour of the Egyptian Wing at the Brooklyn Museum of Art to discuss the 5000-year old glorious legacy of our African Ancestors in the Nile Valley region. Payment can be made via Paypal at http://centerformaat.com/navigation_bars/Lectures.html or in person via cash or money order.
$25 for adults, $15 for students over 12
For more info, call 646-853-0496 or email djed@centerformaat.com
Scribe Statue of Amunhotep, Son of Nebiry
The Egyptians valued learning and literacy above all other skills, including physical strength and military prowess. Egyptian men who mastered reading and writing were frequently represented as scribes: sitting cross-legged with inscribed papyrus rolls in their laps. Some examples, such as this one, show the subject with his head gently inclined as if reading the papyrus.
So-called scribe statues were first produced in Dynasty 4 (circa 2625–2500 B.C.). Originally only princes were permitted to appear in this form, but as access to schooling increased over time, scribe statues became relatively common. The subject of this sculpture, a man named Amunhotep, held several priestly and administrative offices.
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