Fragment of a Stela Depicting Plowing, Harvesting, and Fowling

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Arts of Africa

First Intermediate Period, Dynasty 10 (2075–2035 BCE)

Egyptian

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Fragment of a Stela Depicting Plowing, Harvesting, and Fowling
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 2175 BCE–2035 BCE
Medium: Limestone
Inscriptions: Middle Register: The hieroglyphs here funtion like captions in comic books - the man to the right complains "I am thirsty," while the woman to the left says, "I am tired". In the upper most register, a man uges the oxen on, saying, "Ha!"
Dimensions: 35.6 × 33 × 10.2 cm (14 × 13 × 4 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1910.232
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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), pp. 27, 28 (ill.).
C. Ransom Williams, “Review: The Chicago Art Institute Egyptian Collection,” The American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 41, 3 (April 1925), p. 204.
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. 112, tf. 55B.
Khaled Daoud, Necropoles Memphiticae: Inscriptions from the Herakleopolitan Period (Alexandria: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 2011), 264, fig. 88.

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.

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