Statue of Heqat, the Frog Goddess
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Sculpture · travertine (Egyptian alabaster)
Statue of Heqat, the Frog Goddess, c. 2950 BCE. Egypt, Predynastic (5000–2950 BCE), Naqada III (3200–3000 BCE)–Egypt, Early Dynastic (2950–2647 BCE), Dynasty 1. Travertine (Egyptian alabaster); overall: 15.4 x 14.7 x 15.5 cm (6 1/16 x 5 13/16 x 6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1976.5
Descent of Statue of Heqat, the Frog Goddess
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Footnote-style observations from other contributors, folded into the layer's margins. Visible, but quiet.
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Note how the Prussian blue sits in the wave's trough versus its crest — later Hokusai impressions stabilize this gradient, but early pulls like this one still feel like the pigment is being tested against the page.
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The cover of Debussy's 1905 Durand edition of La Mer reproduces this print at the composer's request. A cross-medium lineage worth branching into its own layer.
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Cross-impression XRF of this series (see descendant analysis) supports distinct pulls over the run — not a single uniform batch, but a recarved block drifting as it wore.