Royal Offering Scene from a Temple
Artist
Unknown
Date285–246 BCE
MediumGranite
DimensionsH. 29 in. (73.7 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of the James G. Hanes Memorial Fund
Object numberG.72.2.3
On View
On view[1] Ahmed bey Kamal, “Sebennytos et son temple,” in Annales du Service des Antiquités de l’Égypte 7 (1906), 87–94 (see also 92, no. III).
[2] Edouard Naville, Détails relevés dans les ruines de quelques temples égyptiens (Paris, 1930), pl. 16, A 3–4 (see also Appendix on Samanood).
[3] In a letter dated to 6 November 1972, Alan Brandt indicates that the relief was previously in the collection of Avery Brundage, Olympic athlete and fifth president of the Olympic Committee (NCMA Curatorial file). Additional documentation has yet to substantiate this claim and it is currently unknown whether Brandt acquired the relief directly from the Brundage collection.
[4] The relief was purchased with funds donated to NCMA from the James G. Hanes Memorial Fund by Gordon Hanes. (Letter dated December 7, 1972 to NCMA from the Trustees of the Fund and letter dated December 7, 1972 from Moussa Domit to Gordon Hanes, NCMA Curatorial file).
Published ReferencesAhmed bey Kamal, "Sebennytos et son temple," in Annales du Service des Anitiquités de l'Égypte 7 (1906), 87-94 (see also 92, no. III).
Edouard Naville, Détails relevés dans les ruines de quelques temples égyptiens (Paris, 1930), pl. 16, A 3-4 (see also Appendix on Samanood).
George Steindorff, "Reliefs from the Temples of Sebennytos and Iseion in American Collections," in Journal of the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore (1944-45), 39-59 (see also description on 49-51, figs., 9, 12).
“La Chronique des Arts,” supplement to the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 332-3 (February 1974), 100, illus.
"Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 12, nos. 1 and 2 (December 1973), listed 48, illus. (b-w) 50.
Edgar Peters Bowron, ed., Introduction to the Collections (Chapel Hill: published for the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, by The University of North Carolina, 1983), illus. (b-w) 42-43.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 12-13.
Neal A. Spencer, “The Epigraphic Survey of Samanud,” in Journal of Egyptian Archaeology no. 83 (1999), 82.
Caroline M. Rocheleau, Ancient Egyptian Art [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012), cat. no. 27, illus. (color) 75, details (color) and translations 142–144.
Rocheleau, Caroline M. , ‘The Stratigraphy of Provenance.’ In Collecting and Collectors from Antiquity to Modernity. Selected Papers in Ancient Art and Architecture Vol. 4, 2018: 175-186. (Illus. (b/w) p. 179, fig. 1; p. 180, fig. 2; p. 181, fig. 3)
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," October 7, 2022–present. Object Rights Statement
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