Object Title
Talatat
Measurements
9 1/4 × 21 × 2 1/8 in. (23.5 × 53.3 × 5.4 cm)
Creation Date
ca. 1352-1332 B.C.E.
Credit Line
Gift of Albert Gallatin and Stanley J. Love, by exchange, Frank L. Babbott Fund, Henry L. Batterman Fund, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund and Designated Purchase Fund
Museum Name
Museum Contact
meghan.bill@brooklynmuseum.org
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/224450
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Ancient Egypt (Muslim conquest of Egypt, 642 C.E.)
Provenance Information
Archaeological provenance not yet documented; probably from el-Amarna, Egypt, reused inside the pylon of Ramsses II at Hermopolis Magna, Egypt; before 1980, reportedly acquired by Marianne Maspero of Paris, France; between 1980 and 2004, provenance not yet documented; before 2004, reportedly acquired by Galerie Cybele, Paris, France; between 2004 and 2018, provenance not yet documented; by 2018, acquired by Rupert Wace Ancient Art, London, United Kingdom; 2019, purchased from Rupert Wace Ancient Art by the Brooklyn Museum.
Exhibition Information
Later Egypt Galleries, Brooklyn Museum, 11/6/2019-present.
Publication Information
Johnson, Ray, "A Pastoral Scene from El Amarna Reconstructed" in KMT, no. 283 (Fall 2017) pp. 1-7.
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
Cumulative facts and circumstances
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
The work has provenance until at least 1980 in Paris, and was published in 2017.
This block joins two other talatat blocks in known collections, as published by Ray Johnson in 2017.
The object is currently on view alongside with Brooklyn's 86.226.30 and Metropolitan Museum of Art's 68.16. In October 2022, a newly acquired talatat, 2022.17, will be added to the presentation. With the addition of this object, the Brooklyn Museum collection is able to illustrate semi- comic genre scenes during the Amarna Period; no other Egyptian collection outside of Egypt has the ability to illustrate this important point.
This block joins two other talatat blocks in known collections, as published by Ray Johnson in 2017.
The object is currently on view alongside with Brooklyn's 86.226.30 and Metropolitan Museum of Art's 68.16. In October 2022, a newly acquired talatat, 2022.17, will be added to the presentation. With the addition of this object, the Brooklyn Museum collection is able to illustrate semi- comic genre scenes during the Amarna Period; no other Egyptian collection outside of Egypt has the ability to illustrate this important point.