Stele of Hetep-neb and his Wife Artist: UnknownEgyptian

2150 B.C.

Ancient Art

Not on view
Medium

limestone, carved

Dimensions

19 1/8 × 3 9/16 × 32 7/8 in., 132 lb. (48.5 × 9 × 83.5 cm, 59.87 kg)

Credit Line

Gift of Prof. William Kelly Simpson, B.A. 1947, M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1954

Accession Number

1992.9.1

Culture

Egyptian

Period

1st Intermediate Period

Classification

Sculpture

Disclaimer

Note: This electronic record was created from historic documentation that does not necessarily reflect the Yale University Art Gallery’s complete or current knowledge about the object. Review and updating of records is ongoing.

Provenance
Collection Dr. Roland Bay, Basel; sale of the above, Galerie Dr. Phil. Hans Rudolph, Hamburg; sale of the above, Sotheby's London, 10/11 July 1989; William Kelly Simpson, acquired from the above, 1989; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., acquired from the above, 1992.
Bibliography
  • Susan B. Matheson, Art for Yale: A History of the Yale University Art Gallery (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2001), 112–13, fig. 108
  • "Acquisitions 1992," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (1993), 152, ill
Object copyright
No Copyright - United States

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