Head from a Shabti of Akhenaten
Artist
Unknown
Datecirca 1352–1336 BCE
MediumLimestone
Dimensions3 1/8 x 2 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (7.9 x 7.3 x 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsSculpture
Credit LineGift of the James G. Hanes Memorial Fund
Object numberG.74.2.8
On View
On viewPublished ReferencesConstant DeWit, "Une tête d'oushebti d'Amenophis IV au Musée du Caire," Chronique d'Égypte Tome XL, no. 79 (January 1965), 26, illus. (b-w) fig. 16.
Geoffrey T. Martin, Archaeological Survey Of Egypt, Thirty-fifth Memoir. The Royal Tomb at El-Amarna, part I, The Objects (Egypt Exploration Society, 1974), 72, no. 255 and illus. (b-w) pl. 18.
"Recent Acquisitions," North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 13, nos. 1 and 2 (1975), cat. no. 93, illus. (b-w) 33.
Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1286 (March 1976), 32, illus. 117.
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 Press, 1983), illus. (b-w) 38.
Introduction to the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1992), illus. (b-w) 8.
North Carolina Museum of Art Preview (Autumn 1988), illus. (b-w) 23.Mary Ellen Soles, Head from a Shawabti of Akhenaten, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, Rebecca Martin Nagy, ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1998), 17, illus. (color).
Jean-Luc Bovot, Les serviteurs funéraires royaux et princiers de l'Ancienne Égypte (Paris: Réunion des musées régionaux/Musée du Louvre, 2003), mentioned 75.
Caroline M. Rocheleau, entry for Head from a Shabti of Akhenaten, in North Carolina Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections, rev. ed. (Raleigh: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2010), 34, illus. (color) 35.
Caroline M. Rocheleau, Ancient Egyptian Art [Systematic Catalogue of the Collection] (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2012), cat. no. 11, illus. (color) 29.
Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, Egyptian Gallery, April 22, 1974-February 13, 1978.
Raleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” November 23, 1975-February 1, 1976.
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