About the Artwork
Upper Part of a Statue of a Dignitary
ca. 1500 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Quartzite
Overall: 11 1/4 × 8 1/8 × 5 1/2 inches (28.6 × 20.6 × 14 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund
73.85
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
Inscribed, two vertical lines of inscription on the back pillar, which read: [translated: A boon which the king gives to Atum, lord of - - - P-t-nw, Sd, who resides among the swampy lakes of Asia - - - | -.-.-.life in the royal favor and a proper burial -.-.-.after a good old age]
Provenance
(Charles D. Kelekian). 1973-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 52, no. 1 (1973): pp. 11-12 (ill.).
Goedicke, Hans. An Eighteenth Dynasty Statue from the Eastern Delta. Ca. 1974, [unpublished manuscript].
"La Chronique des Arts," in supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no.1261 (Fevrier 1974): p. 97, (fig. 316) (ill.).
Peck, William H. "Egyptian Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts," in American
Research Center in Egypt Newsletter, no. 122 (Summer 1983): p. 5.
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Egyptian, Upper Part of a Statue of a Dignitary, ca. 1500 BCE, quartzite. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Ralph Harman Booth Bequest Fund, 73.85.
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