Provenance Information

Archaeological provenance not yet documented, probably from el-Amarna, Egypt, reused inside the pylon of Ramsses II at Hermopolis Magna, Egypt; mid-1960s, reportedly acquired by an anonymous Swiss collector; by 2015, acquired from descendants of an anonymous Swiss collector by Rupert Wace Ancient Art, London; 2015, purchased at TEFAF, Maastricht from Rupert Wace Ancient Art by Hermann A. Schlögl of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany; 2022, gift of Hermann A. Schlögl to the Brooklyn Museum.

Exhibition Information

None, but the object will go on view in the Later Egypt Gallery in 10/2022, alongside Brooklyn's 86.226.30, Brooklyn's 2019.13, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art's 68.16.

Publication Information

Johnson, Ray, "A Pastoral Scene from El Amarna Reconstructed" in KMT, no. 283 (Fall 2017) pp. 1-7.
Schlogl, Buxtorf, "Kunst und Handwerk aus Agyptens Goldener Zeit," Harrassowitz-Verlag Weisbaden, 2018, p. 50.

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Cumulative facts and circumstances

Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above

This block joins three other talatat blocks in known collections, as published by Ray Johnson in 2017. The object will go on view in 10/2022, along with Brooklyn's 86.226.30, Brooklyn's 2019.13, and Metropolitan Museum of Art's 68.16. With this addition, the Brooklyn Museum collection is now 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.