Object Title
Wall painting fragment showing a figure carrying an offering stand
Measurements
"sight: 12 5/8 × 17 3/8 in. (32.1 × 44.1 cm) framed: 19 × 23 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (48.3 × 59.7 × 6.4 cm)"
Creation Date
1401–1391 B.C.
Credit Line
Yale University Art Gallery, Bequest of William Kelly Simpson, B.A. 1947, M.A. 1948, Ph.D. 1954
Museum Name
Museum Contact
artgalleryinfo@yale.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://artgallery.yale.edu/collections/objects/262980
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
N/A
Provenance Information
"Tomb of Sebekhotep (Theban Necropolis Tomb TT63), Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Egypt [see note 1]. With Galerij Ancient Art, Amsterdam, 1979; William Kelly Simpson (1928–2017), New York, and Katonah, N.Y.; bequeathed to the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn., 2017
Note 1: Wall painting fragment showing a figure carrying an offering stand was photographed in situ between about 1924–40 by three archaeological expeditions and/or epigraphic surveys, including archaeological photographer and Egyptologist, Harry Burton (1879–1940), as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Egyptian Expedition (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives, MMA T 2774–2777, copy in accession file); by the Chicago Oriental Institute Epigraphic Survey (Chic. Or. Institute Epigraphic Survey, no. 2854, copy in accession file); and by German Egyptologist Siegfried Schott (1897–1971) (Das Digital Schotts-Archiv Trier, no. 4335, copy in accession file)
Note 1: Wall painting fragment showing a figure carrying an offering stand was photographed in situ between about 1924–40 by three archaeological expeditions and/or epigraphic surveys, including archaeological photographer and Egyptologist, Harry Burton (1879–1940), as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Egyptian Expedition (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives, MMA T 2774–2777, copy in accession file); by the Chicago Oriental Institute Epigraphic Survey (Chic. Or. Institute Epigraphic Survey, no. 2854, copy in accession file); and by German Egyptologist Siegfried Schott (1897–1971) (Das Digital Schotts-Archiv Trier, no. 4335, copy in accession file)
Exhibition Information
N/A
Publication Information
"Acquisitions July 1, 2017–June 30, 2018," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin: Online Supplement (accessed December 1, 2018), 11
Section of the AAMD Guidelines relied upon for the exception to 1970
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Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
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