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Collection Online as of November 28, 2023

Bronze Mount from a "Shawabty Bundle": Arm with Scribe's Palette

c. 1336–1256 BC

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Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Qubbanet el-Qirud, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasties 18–19

Bronze with traces of gilding

Overall: 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.554.2.b

Location

107 Egyptian

Provenance
Probably Thebes, Wadi Qubbanet el-Qirud. Purchased from Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
Citations
Berman, Lawrence Michael and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland, OH]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 381-383, cat. no. 290
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