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Ancient Art
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Relief from the Tomb of Mentu-em-hat
680–640 B.C.
Limestone with significant traces of red pigment
49.5 × 74.9 cm (19 1/2 × 29 1/2 in.)
Gift of Prof. William Kelly Simpson, B.A. 1947, M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1954, in memory of his father Hon. Kenneth F. Simpson B.A. 1917, and grandfather Nathan Todd Porter, B.A. 1890
2003.28.1
Status:
Not on view
Culture:
Egyptian
Period:
Late Period, Dynasty 25-26
Classification:
Sculpture
Provenance:
Ex. coll. Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf, Chicago
Bibliography:
Hans Wolfgang Müller, “Der Stadfürst von Theben-Montemhêt,” Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 26 (1975): 7–36.
Peter Der Manuelian, “An Essay in Reconstruction: Two Registers from the Tomb of Mentuemhat at Thebes (no. 34),” Miteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 39 (1983): 146, no. 8.
Peter Der Manuelian, “Two Fragments of a Relief and a New Model for the Tomb of Monuemhêt at Thebes,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 71 (1985): 100–112, pl. VII, fig. 2.
Peter Der Manuelian, Living in the Past: Studies in Archaism of the Egyptian Twenty-Sixth Dynasty (London: Kegan Paul International, 1994), 21, Frontispiece, fig. 3.
“Acquisitions 2003,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004): 136–37, ill.
Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 196–97, 386, pl. 182.
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