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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: 

Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 196–97, 386, pl. 182.

“Acquisitions 2003,” Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2004): 136–37, ill.

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.

Hans Wolfgang Müller, “Der Stadfürst von Theben-Montemhêt,” Münchner Jahrbuch der Bildenden Kunst 26 (1975): 7–36.

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.

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 such records is ongoing.