Location

not on view

Description

Were it not for the inscription in sunk relief and the man's name of a type that does not occur until the Third Intermediate Period, this stele could be easily mistaken for a work of the Old Kingdom, and for a long time it was. In fact, it was made 2,000 years later, in Dynasty 26, when artists turned to the past for inspiration.

Provenance

Heliopolis. Purchased from E. A. Abemayor, Cairo, through Howard Carter

Citations

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 5 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 5 archive.org

The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 17 archive.org

Berman, Lawrence M., and Kenneth J. Bohač. Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999 Reproduced and Mentioned: p. 416

Ellington, Tameka N., Joseph L. Underwood, and Sarah Rogers-Lafferty. Textures: The History and Art of Black Hair. 2020. p, 83

Exhibition history

Brooklyn 1960-61, no. 24; Cleveland 1975, no. 67; Springfield 1984, no. 9, fig. 31; CMA, 11 November 1986-15 February 1987, Comfortably Seated

Traditions and Revisions: Themes from the History of Sculpture. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 24-November 16, 1975).

Textures: The Art and History of Black Hair. Kent State University Museum, Kent, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2021-August 14, 2022) https://www.kent.edu/museum/event/textures-history-and-art-black-hair.

The Cleveland Museum of Art

Stele of Djedatumiufankh

Egypt, Late Period, Dynasty 26

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