Provenance Information

c. 1970s in the collection of Jerry L. Abramson, Dallas, Texas; lent to the Dallas Museum of Art since July 2005; given to DMA by Mr. Abramson's estate (accession date: January 30, 2009).

Exhibition Information

DMA, July 2006 through the present.

Publication Information

N/A

Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970

Gift or bequest expected or on loan prior to 2008

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

This work was on long-term loan to the DMA beginning in July 2005, prior to its acquisition in 2009. Although the collector from whose estate the DMA acquired this work began collecting in the 1960s or '70s, the DMA has been unable to substantiate the precise date of acquisition because of the death of the former owner. The DMA's collection contains only four scarabs or scaraboid seals or amulets, all donated by the same collector or his estate, which fill what would otherwise be a gap in the collection of Egyptian funerary art.