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Bronze Mounts from a "Shawabty Bundle": Head, Arms, and Feet

Bronze Mounts from a "Shawabty Bundle": Head, Arms, and Feet

c. 1336–1256 BCE
(1540–1069 BCE)
bronze, black copper wig, traces of gilding
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.554
Location: 107 Egyptian
  • Probably Thebes, Wadi Qubbanet el-Qirud. Purchased from Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
  • Drayman Weisser, Terry. Gilded Metals: History, Technology and Conservation. London, England: Archetype Publications in association with the American Institute of Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, 2000. p. 57-8
    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
  • Inaugural Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (June 6-September 20, 1916).
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