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Statuette of Goddess or God's Wife of Amun

PLACE CREATED Egypt, Africa

CULTURE Egyptian

PERIOD Late Period, Dynasty 25

DATE 722-655 BCE

MEDIUM Bronze

CREDIT LINE Museum purchase

DIMENSIONS 4 3/16 in. (10.6 cm)

OBJECT NUMBER 1998.012

Exhibition History
MCCM Permanent Collection Galleries, February 2000 - Spring 2001
MCCM Permanent Collection Reinstallation, October 6, 2001 - Present

Published References
Royal-Athena Galleries, Art of the Ancient World (1992), number 352.
Peter Lacovara, "The New Galleries of Egyptian and Near Eastern Art at the Michael C. Carlos Museum," Minerva (September/October 2001): 9-16.

TERMS statuettes (free-standing sculpture)

PROVENANCE
Wit Jerome Eisenberg (1930-2022) [Royal-Athena Galleries], New York, New York, from at least 1992.
Purchased by MCCM from Royal-Athena.

STATUS On view

COLLECTIONS Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern

Title
Statuette of Goddess or God's Wife of Amun, Late period Dynasty 25, Findspot unknown Egypt, Bronze,The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University

https://collections.carlos.emory.edu/objects/17748/statuette-of-goddess-or-gods-wife-of-amun?ctx=de2c4001e132b5f78e53289bac2140f474c27f89&idx=1509

The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University

Stela of Nehemesbastet

GEM Number
2904

Collection
Main Galleries

Period
Late Period
Dynasty
26

Description
A painted limestone stela from Abydos. It belongs to Nehemesbastet daughter of Padewen and Neshathor and is dated to the reign of Psamtek I who ruled Egypt in Dynasty 26. A curved sign of the sky and a winged sun disc with two uraeus snakes fill the rounded top of the stela. Below, a nefer sign (beauty) is flanked by two wedjat eyes and two shen signs (eternity). The main scene on the stela shows Nehemesbastet followed by her father Padewen and her mother Neshathor. All three are standing, raising both arms in adoration and presenting an offering table laden with an assortment of offerings to god Re-Horakhty who stands on the left, on a pedestal in the form of the maat sign (justice). His head is topped by the sun disc fronted by a uraeus snake and his hands clasp the was sceptre (prosperity). Twelve vertical columns of hieroglyphic text, painted above the heads of the main characters in the scenes, recite an offering formula for the deceased.

Provenance

Region
Upper Egypt

Area
Sohag

Material
Limestone

Dimensions
Height
45 cm
Width
4.5 cm
Length
33.2 cm

Title
Stela of Nehemesbastet, Late Period
Dynasty 26, Findspot Sohag, Limestone, Grand Egyptian Museum

https://gem.eg/en/collection/artefacts/stela-of-nehemesbastet

Grand Egyptian Museum

Silver Statue of a Goddess (Dendera Treasure Hoards)

GEM Number
2560

Collection
Main Galleries

Period
Graeco-Roman

Description
A statue of a goddess (probably Isis or Hathor) from the so-called ‘Dendera Treasure Hoard’ - a votive ritual hoard of silver, gold and bronze objects discovered in 1918 near the sacred lake, south-west of the Dendera temple. The statue is almost identical with GEM 2561 (also from the same Dendera Treasure Hoard). The seated goddess wears a tripartite hair wig topped with a fillet, a uraeus snake and a double crown. She wears a broad collar and a close-fitting dress. Her right hand is clenched on her lap, suggesting that it once held a sceptre as indicated by the centred hole in her fist, while the other hand rests flat.  

Provenance

Region
Upper Egypt

Area
Qena

Material
Silver

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Dimensions
Height
41 cm
Width
9.5 cm
Length

Title
Silver Statue of a Goddess (Dendera Treasure Hoards), Graeco-Roman Period Findspot Qena, Silver, Grand Egyptian Museum

https://gem.eg/en/collection/artefacts/silver-statue-of-a-goddess-dendera-treasure-hoards

Grand Egyptian Museum

Duck-shaped Amulet

Third quarter 2nd millennium BC (-1479 - -1458)

Green chrysoprase

1 x 1.7 x 1 cm

FGA-ARCH-EG-0166

DISCOVERING PLACE
Upper Egypt, Deir el-Bahari (possibly during the excavations of Eduard Naville)

REGISTRATIONS
Hieroglyphic inscription: " Hm.t nTr nfrw-ra "; " The worshipper of the god, [whose name is] Neferu-rê "

MOVEMENT / STYLE
New Kingdom,18th dynasty, reign of Hatshepsut

Cvilization
Egypt

Provenance
Jean Schopfer Collection (1868-1931), tennis player and writer known under the pseudonym Claude Anet, perhaps acquired in Egypt in 1913

Montheux, Valmondois collection, by inheritance from an uncle

Jean-Claude L'Herbette Collection

François Antonovich Gallery, Paris

Bibliography
BERLANDINI, Jocelyne, "Amenhotep III and the concept of Heh", Bulletin of the Society of Egyptology, Geneva, No. 17, 1993, p. 11-28, cited p. 20-21, fig. 7

BIANCHI, Robert Steven, Ancient Egypt. Art and Magic. Treasures from the Fondation Gandur pour l'Art, Geneva, Switzerland, exhibition catalogue [St. Petersburg (FL), Museum of Fine Arts, 12.17.2011 - 04.29.2012], St. Petersburg, Museum of Fine Arts, 2011, cited p. 156-157, no. 56

CHAPPAZ Jean-Luc; CHAMAY Jacques, Reflections of the divine. Pharaonic and classical antiquities from a private collection, exhibition catalogue [Geneva, Museum of Art and History, 08/30/2001 - 02/03/2002], Geneva, Museums of Art and History, 2001, cited p. 74, no. 63

GERMOND, Philippe, "In the margin of the bestiary: a funny duck...", Bulletin of the Society of Egyptology, Geneva (BSÉG), No. 25, 2003, p. 75-94, cited p. 90-91, fig. 17

KÜNZI, Frédéric; CAUVIN, Simone, The treasures of the pharaohs, exhibition catalogue [Geneva, International Book and Press Salon at Palexpo, 30.04 - 04.05.2008], Geneva, Fondation pour l'écrit, 2008, cited p. 156-157, no. 189

LESSING, Erich; VERNUS, Pascal, Gods of Egypt, Paris, National Printing House, 1998, cited p. 50-51, reproduced on the back cover.

Comparison
PATCH, Diana, Reflections of Greatness: Ancient Egypt at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Premier Book Marketing Ltd, 1990, p. 106

Expositions
Reflections of the divine. Pharaonic and classical antiquities from a private collection, Geneva, Museum of Art and History, 30.08.2001 — 03.02.2002

The treasures of the pharaohs. Exhibition Egypt of Akhenaton to Ramses II. Images of eternity, Geneva, International Book and Press Salon - Palexpo, 04.04.2008 — 04.05.2008

Ancient Egypt - Art and Magic, Treasures from the Fondation Gandur for Art, Saint-Petersburg (FL), Museum of Fine Art, 12.17.2011 — 04.29.2012

Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt, Tokyo, Tokyo National Museum, 07.07.2015 — 23.09.2015

Cleopatra and the Queens of Egypt, Osaka, National Museum of Art, 10.10.2015 — 20.12.2015

Title
Duck-shaped amulet, Third quarter 2nd millennium BC (-1479 - -1458) New Kingdom 18th dynasty Reign of Hatshepsut, Findspot Upper Egypt Deir el-Bahari (possibly during the excavations of Eduard Naville), Gander Foundation for Art

https://onlinecollections.fg-art.org/eMP/eMuseumPlus?service=direct/1/ResultListView/result.t1.collection_list.$TspTitleImageLink.link&sp=10&sp=Scollection&sp=SfilterDefinition&sp=0&sp=0&sp=1&sp=SdetailList&sp=0&sp=Sdetail&sp=0&sp=F&sp=T&sp=15

Gandur Foundation for Art