The statue of (the goddess Seshat) made with outstanding quality in Egypt is unique and rare

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13*3*4 INCH

550 grams

Seshat is the goddess of wisdom, knowledge and writing in ancient Egypt. She was considered the keeper of texts and records, and her name means the one who writes, and he is credited with inventing writing. She also became known as a goddess of architecture, astronomy, astrology, construction, mathematics, and surveying, all of which depend on skill in writing and notation, and she was also known in some later texts as the savikh obi which means the one who wears the two horns (as a sign of her head covering).

Among her other titles is the Lady of the House of Books, which means the goddess whose priests maintain the library where the scrolls that contain important knowledge and sciences were preserved, and one of the princes of the Fourth Dynasty called (Wam Nefert) was called on his board the supervisor of the royal scribes and the priest of Seshat, and it was Heliopolis. The site of her sacred sanctuary and the center of her worship, and she was described as the goddess of history.

In the inscriptions, she was depicted in the form of a woman with a seven-pointed emblem above her head, and it is not clear what exactly represented this emblem, and Pharaoh Thutmose III (1479-1425 BC) called her a father figure, meaning the seven-point emblem, and it states 10 texts Coffins read: "Seshat opens the gates of heaven for you."

She usually appears holding a pen to write, drawing notches on a palm tree (the leg of the compound leaf of the palm) to signify the passage of time, and especially to track and record the life of Pharaoh, as it was depicted with other tools, usually with knotted ropes stretched out to mark the area of ​​land and buildings.

Likewise, she often appears wearing leopard or tiger skin on her dress, which is a symbol intended for funeral priests, if she does not appear with the skin over a garment, the pattern of decoration on the garment itself is similar to the shape of the skin of spotted cats (leopards and tigers), and it is believed that the staining pattern of these skins is The animals on their natural hide represent the stars that were considered a symbol of eternity and are associated with the night sky as well.

As the goddess of measures, weights, and writing, it was believed that she would appear to assist the pharaoh in these practices, just as she was the one who recorded on her palm newspaper the time remaining for the pharaoh in this life on earth.

She also assisted the Pharaoh in the "stretching of rope" ritual associated with drawing the foundations of temples and other important structures in order to define and ensure sacred standards and accuracy of dimensions. Her skills were necessary to survey the land after the annual floods to redraw the boundaries between agricultural lands, the priestess who was participating in this process in her name. She also supervised other employees who performed similar duties and were trained in mathematics and related field of knowledge and science.

Much of this knowledge was considered so sacred that it could not be shared outside the ranks of higher eunuchs such as architects and some scribes, and it was also responsible for recording speeches given by the pharaoh during the coronation ceremonies and certifying the number of foreign captives and spoils in military campaigns, and during the era of the modern state, She was participating in the feast of Sid, which was held by the pharaohs, who were able to rule for 30 years.

Later, when the cult of the moon god Thoth appeared and became prominent and he became referred to as the god of wisdom, the role of Seshat in the hierarchy of the Egyptian gods changed when similarities to the ancient gods were introduced, so her low-ranking priestesses were replaced by those of Thoth, and at first she was said to be his daughter, and then after that. She became his wife.

After pairing with a thoth, the Seshat emblem appeared, surmounted by a crescent, which over time transformed into the shape of two horns to form the same shape as the crescent, but upside down looking down (in a way not typical for Egyptian art). When the crescent symbol turned into horns, it sometimes became called the Obi Sikh. Means (the wearer of two centuries), and in a few pictures its horn resembles a cobra, as shown in the hieroglyphic writings, but facing each other with their heads touching.