2000.011

Object Title
Head
Measurements
7.9 x 5 x 7 cm
Creation Date
2435-2152 BCE
Credit Line
Egyptian Purchase Fund
Museum Contact
ashanle@emory.edu
Culture
Country of Origin
Object Type
Materials / Techniques
Object URL
https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/6820/head-from-a-statuette-of-a-woman?ctx=70170105c7a5d0a0a91573c8ccd863ab7dd1143a&idx=0
Museum's Definition of Antiquity
Older than 100 years.
Provenance Information
Ex Thetis Foundation Collection, Geneva, Switzerland. With Sotheby's New York, December 17, 1998, lot 397. Purchased by MCCM from Jerome Eisenberg (1930-2022) [Royal-Athena Galleries], New York, New York.
Exhibition Information
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, September 2001 - August 8, 2011
Life and Death in the Pyramid Age: The Emory Old Kingdom Mummy, Michael C. Carlos Museum, September 10 - December 11, 2011
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, February 2012 - Present
Publication Information
Sotheby's New York, Antiquities, December 17, 1998, 170, 194, lot 397
Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World Volume XI (2000), 45, number 112.
Peter Lacovara and Betsy Teasley Trope, The Realm of Osiris (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2001), 24.
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
Acquired by museum in 2000.

2018.103.3

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 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)
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
N/D
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
N/A

2018.103.2

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 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)
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
N/D
Explain why the object fits the exception set forth above
N/A
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