Relief Fragment Depicting Ipi and Fowling in the Marshes
Date:
First Intermediate Period, Dynasty 10, about 2050 BCE
Artist:
Egyptian; Saqqara, Teti Pyramid Cemetery, offering niche of Ipi
About this artwork
This lively scene depicts two men hiding behind a reed blind and pulling closed a clap net to snare birds. Four birds, which have escaped the net, fly from the pond in which lotus flowers and lotus pads float. Below, Ipi (the tomb’s owner) surveys other activities on his estate. His name and titles are written in hieroglyphs over his head.
Relief Fragment Depicting Ipi and Fowling in the Marshes
Place
Saqqara (Object made in)
Date
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"The sealbearer of the King of Lower Egypt, Sole Companion, Overseer of Troops, the revered one Ipi."
Dimensions
20.3 × 35.5 × 7.5 cm (8 × 14 × 3 in.)
Credit Line
W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number
1910.230
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James E. Quibell, Excavations at Saqqara (1905–1906) (Cairo: Imprimerie de l’Institut Français d’Archéologie Orientale, 1907) 8, 26, pl. 20, no. 5.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Thirty-Second Annual Report: June 1, 1910–June 1, 1911” (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1911), 19, 62.
Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923), 34 (ill.), 35.
Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p. 9.
Walter Wreszinski, Atlas zur altägyptischen Kulturgeschichte. Teil III: Gräber des Alten Reiches, ed. Heinrich Schäfer (J.C. Hinrichs, 1942), p. 152, Tf. 73B.
Bertha Porter and Rosalind L. B. Moss, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings, vol. 3, Memphis, pt. 2, Saqqâra to Dahshûr, 2nd ed., revised and augmented by Jaromir Málek (Oxford: Griffith Institute, Ashmolean Museum, 1978), 564.
Wolfgang Decker and Michael Herb, Bild zum Sport im Agypten, Teil 1 (Leiden. New York. Kolden: E.J. Brill, 1994), p. 505, Tafel CCLXXVIII.
Khaled Daoud, Necropoles Memphiticae: Inscriptions from the Herakleopolitan Period (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2011), 262, fig. 86.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.
The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.
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