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Collection Online as of January 21, 2021

Shawabty Box of Bakenmut

1000-900 BC

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21 (1069-945 BC) or early Dynasty 22

(945-715 BC)

Gessoed and painted buckthorn wood

Overall: 44.6 x 28 cm (17 9/16 x 11 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.719

Location

not on view

Provenance
Thebes, Deir el-Bahri (?). Purchased from Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
Citations
Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced: p. 366; Mentioned: p. 366-367
Exhibition history

CMA 1916, no. 7, p. 204 (as "BOX FOR TWO CANOPIC JARS."), pl. 340; Lawrence M. Berman, Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art, with Kenneth J. Bohac (Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999) cat. 278

Source URL: https://cmaweb23-bbn-2.clevelandart.org/art/1914.719