Wall Fragment from a Tomb Depicting a Harvest Scene
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), 19, 62.
Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of The Egyptian Collection (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), 24, 26 (ill.), 28.
Yvonne Harpur, Decoration in Egyptian Tombs of the Old Kingdom: Studies in Orientation and Scene Content (London and New York: KPI, 1987), 354.
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), 38.
The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.
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