Head and Torso of a Man from a Pair Statue

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New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (about 1550–1295 BCE)

Egyptian

Status: On View, Gallery 50
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Head and Torso of a Man from a Pair Statue
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.: 1550 BCE–1295 BCE
Medium: Limestone and pigment
Dimensions: 45.7 × 34.3 × 20.3 cm (18 × 13 1/2 × 8 in.)
Credit Line: W. Moses Willner Fund
Reference Number: 1910.255
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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.
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.

Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1910.

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