Returned to lender The Met accepts temporary loans of art both for short-term exhibitions and for long-term display in its galleries.
Statue of the Brewer Renefsenebdag Seated
Middle Kingdom
Not on view
This object is not part of The Met collection. It was in the Museum for a special exhibition and has been returned to the lender.
As a brewer, Renefsenebdag was not a member of the upper class, but he was still able to afford a statue of respectable quality, a circumstance more common in the Middle Kingdom than in earlier periods. The statue is likely made of steatite, an easily worked stone used for images of lower-ranking individuals, which, after firing, imitates costlier materials. The small figure represents Renefsenebdag’s daughter Ibia and the text mentions a son, Dedunub.
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