Object Title
Wall painting fragment showing three offering bearers moving to the right
Measurements
framed: 15 5/8 × 22 × 4 in. (39.7 × 55.9 × 10.2 cm) 9 × 15 3/4 in. (22.9 × 40 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/262981
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
N/A
Provenance Information
Tomb of Sebekhotep (Theban Necropolis Tomb TT63), Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Egypt [see note 1]. Acquired in New York, by 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 three offering bearers moving to the right was photographed in situ between about 1926–40 as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Egyptian Expedition by Archaeological photographer and Egyptologist, Harry Burton (1879–1940) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives, MMA T 2784, copy in accession file) A portion of the fragment was also traced in situ sometime between 1920–40 by Nina M. Davies (1881–1965) and Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941) (Oxford Griffith Institute, Davies MSS. 10.21.1, copy in accession file)
Note 1: Wall painting fragment showing three offering bearers moving to the right was photographed in situ between about 1926–40 as part of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Egyptian Expedition by Archaeological photographer and Egyptologist, Harry Burton (1879–1940) (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art Archives, MMA T 2784, copy in accession file) A portion of the fragment was also traced in situ sometime between 1920–40 by Nina M. Davies (1881–1965) and Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941) (Oxford Griffith Institute, Davies MSS. 10.21.1, copy in accession file)
Exhibition Information
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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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