Head From a Shabti (Funerary Figurine) of Queen Tiye
Date:
New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Reign of Akhenaten (about 1352–1336 BCE)
About this artwork
The form of the crown, full lips, down-turned edges of the mouth and almond-shaped eyes identify this fragment as Queen Tiye. She was the influential wife of pharaoh Amunhotep III. This head may originally have come from a statuette made during the reign of her son, Akhenaten.
Head From a Shabti (Funerary Figurine) of Queen Tiye
Place
Egypt (Object made in)
Date
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Travertine (Egyptian alabaster) with traces of pigment
Dimensions
7.6 × 5.8 × 2.6 cm (3 × 2 1/4 × 1 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Norman W. Harris
Reference Number
1892.232
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), 54 (ill.).
Maya Müller, Die Kunst Amenophis’ III und Echnatons (Basel: Verlag für Ägyptologie, 1988), sect. 4, 8–9 (as OIM 18021).
Arielle P. Kozloff and Betsy M. Bryan, eds., Egypt’s Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World, exh. cat. (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), 210n7 (as Oriental Institute 92.232).
Karen B. Alexander, “The New Galleries of Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Minerva 5, no. 3 (May–June 1994): 29, fig. 2.
Emily Teeter, “Egyptian Art,” in “Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 20, no. 1 (1994): 21, no. 5 (ill.).
Jaromír Málek, Diana Magee, and Elizabeth Miles, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. 8, Objects of Provenance Not Known, pt. 2, Private Statues (Dynasty XVIII to the Roman Period), Statues of Deities (Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1999), 727–28 (no. 801-690-120).
Marianne Eaton-Krauss, “The Head from a Shabti of Queen Tiye in Chicago,” Orientalia N.S., 75, 1 (2006), 84-90, tab. IX-X.
Heike C. Schmidt, “Die Rolle der Gebrüder Brugsch im ägyptischen Antikenhandel,” in Mosse im Museum: Die Stiftungstätigkeit des Berliner Verlegers Rudolf Mosse (1843–1920) für das Ägyptische Museum Berlin, ed. Jana Helmbold-Doyé and Thomas L. Gertzen (Berlin: Hentrich & Hentrich, 2017), 49, 56n49.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.
Émile Brugsch (1842-1930), Bulaq Museum and Egyptian Antiquities Service, Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1892.
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