This carving at the Brooklyn Museum in Brooklyn, New York, is a miracle of sorts. It is a surviving fragment from an old temple wall. Seshat artifacts are much rarer than those of Thoth and the most famous divine females in the Egyptian pantheon (Isis, Hathor, Sekhmet, Bast, and Nephthys), so it is very cool to find her sitting in a museum in all her scribal glory.
The description under the display reads: "Seshat, whose name means "female scribe," was the goddess of writing and record keeping. She was believed to have responsibility for recording regnal years and maintaining the House of Life, an archive containing Egypt's sacred books. This fragment—found at the Pyramid Temple of Senwosret I—was copied from a relief carved at least three hundred years earlier for Pepy II, the last great ruler of the Old Kingdom."
The catalogue description is: Limestone relief. In sunk relief, at right the goddess Seshat seated, recording on papyrus the royal booty. Epithet of goddess incised to left. Upper edge of relief preserves portion of register of kneeling captives. At left, incomplete column of seated foreigners or captives. Condition: Incomplete. Lower left and upper right corner lost; Upper register badly cracked. Lower right area also cracked. Surface weathered. No remains of paint.
"This seated Seshat image was excavated from Lisht, Egypt. From Dynasty 12. Found at the Pyramid Temple of Senwosret I, and was copied from an earlier relief carved for Pepy II, the last great ruler of the Old Kingdom."