Wall Fragment from a Tomb Depicting Offering Bearers

Arts of Africa

Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6 (about 2400–2250 BCE)

Egyptian

In the upper row, a priest named Irtyenankh carries a haunch of beef, while the man behind him plucks a sacrificial bird from a cage. Among the offerings in the middle register is a tall, covered beer jar.

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Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Wall Fragment from a Tomb Depicting Offering Bearers
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date: 2400 BCE–2250 BCE
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 50.8 × 50.2 × 10.2 cm (20 × 19 3/4 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1910.228
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Art Institute of Chicago, Thirty-second Annual Report: June 1, 1910–June 1, 1911 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1911), pp. 19, 62.
Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 29 (ill.).
Karen B. Alexander, “From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago,” in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 38.

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.

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