Figure of Pakhom

between 50 and 30 BCE

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Egyptian: Daily Reverences, Level 1, West Wing

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About the Artwork

Title Figure of Pakhom

Artwork Date between 50 and 30 BCE

Artist ----------

Life Dates ----------

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Egyptian

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Gray granite

Dimensions Overall: 28 × 7 1/2 × 9 1/4 inches (71.1 × 19.1 × 23.5 cm)

Classification Sculpture

Department African Art

Credit Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 51.83

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Inscriptions Inscribed, back pillar: [translated: The prince and count; royal brother; general in chief; prophet of the statues of the pharaoh; guardian of the treasure of Horus of Edfu, the great god, Lord of the sky; and of Hathor, Lady of Dendera; prophet of Isis who resides at Dendera; prophet of Isis, Lady of Philae; and of the gods(?) of Eileithyiaspolis; prophet of Harsomtous the child, son of Hathor; prophet of Hathor, eye of Re, mistress of the sky, regent of all the gods; prophet of Horus of Edfu, the great god, lord of the sky; prophet of the gods and goddesses (?) who are in Wts-Hr and the gods and goddesses who are in ...; Pakhom, son of the general P3-srj,...(?)]

Provenance

(Albert Eid, Cairo, Egypt).
(Julius Carlebach);
1951-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Bulletin of the DIA 31, no. 2 (1951-1952): p. 49.

de Meulenaere, H. "Les Strateges Indigenes du Nome Tentyrite a la Fin de l'Epoque Ptolemaique it au Debut de l'Occupation Romain," Rivista Degli Studi Orientali, vol. XXXIV. 1959, p. 3, 12-16, (ill.).

Stricker, B.H. Oudheidkundige Mededeelingen, Rijksmuseum van Oudheiden, vol. 40. 1959, pl. IV, (fig. 6).

Bothmer, B. V. Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period. Brooklyn Museum, October 17, 1960, cat. no. 136; pp. 154, 157, 170, 176, 178-179; pl. 128-129, (fig. 340-341, 343).

Terrace, Edward L. B., and Henry G. Fischer. Treasures of Egyptian Art from the Cairo Museum. London, 1970, p. 180.

Bianchi, Robert S. "Ptolemaic and Roman Sculpture" Ph.D. diss., New York University. [unpublished].

Bianchi, Robert S. "The Striding Draped Male Figure of Ptolemaic Egypt," in the transcript of Das Ptolemaische Ägypten, Symposium. Berlin, September 27-29, 1976, p. 98; (fig. 59-60).

Bianchi, Robert S. "Not the Isis Knot," Bulletin of the Egyptological Seminar, vol. 2 (1980): 9-31, p. 13-15, 28, (fig. 8-9).

Cleopatra's Egypt-Age of the Ptolemies. Exh. cat., The Brooklyn Museum. New York, 1988, cat. no. 32; p. 126, 127; (ill.).

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