Drift Stump, North Coast
Brooklyn Museum photograph
Object Label
Demotic script first appeared about 700 B.C.E. It is more cursive than hieratic, and many demotic signs do not correspond exactly with the hieroglyphs used to write the same word. The large number of surviving demotic documents, many of which are not the work of professional scribes, suggests that literacy in Egypt had become more widespread by the time this script appeared. This ostrakon (inscribed stone or pottery fragment) records a prayer to the god Amun to restore a blind man’s sight. It concludes with the words: “Return to me, my great Lord, Amun. I am defenseless; let me not perish; do not forget me.”
Caption
Edward Weston American, 1886–1958. Drift Stump, North Coast, 1939. Gelatin silver print, Image: 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (19.1 x 24.8 cm) Mount: 13 7/8 x 15 1/2 in. (35.2 x 39.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Frank L. Babbott Fund and Frederick Loeser Fund, 46.75.4. © artist or artist's estate (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 46.75.4_PS2.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Artist
Title
Drift Stump, North Coast
Date
1939
Medium
Gelatin silver print
Classification
Dimensions
Image: 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (19.1 x 24.8 cm) Mount: 13 7/8 x 15 1/2 in. (35.2 x 39.4 cm)
Signatures
Initialed and dated in graphite on mount, lower right recto, under photograph. Titled, signed and dated in graphite, center verso.
Credit Line
Frank L. Babbott Fund and Frederick Loeser Fund
Accession Number
46.75.4
Rights
© artist or artist's estate
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