Wall Fragment from a Tomb Depicting Offering Bearers
Date:
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6 (about 2400–2250 BCE)
Artist:
Egyptian
About this artwork
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.
Wall Fragment from a Tomb Depicting Offering Bearers
Place
Egypt (Object made in)
Date
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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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