Wall Fragment from a Tomb Depicting a Harvest Scene

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Africa

First Intermediate Period, Dynasties 9–10 (about 2060–2025 BCE)

Egyptian, Saqqara ?

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Wall Fragment from a Tomb Depicting a Harvest Scene
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date: 2060 BCE–2025 BCE
Medium: Limestone
Dimensions: 38.7 × 23.5 × 10.8 cm (15 1/4 × 9 1/4 × 4 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1910.231
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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 (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), pp. 24, 26 (ill.), 28.
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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