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Collection Online as of March 28, 2024

Marsh Scene with Cat and Birds

Marsh Scene with Cat and Birds

c. 667–647 BCE
Overall: 38 x 41.7 cm (14 15/16 x 16 7/16 in.)
Location: 107 Egyptian

Description

In a great papyrus swamp a civet cat attacks a bird's nest. Above are a hoopoe bird and a crane. Probably the mongoose was shown at the left attacking another nest. The scene is essentially copied from Old Kingdom work, but some details show New Kingdom influence.
  • Thebes, Asasif, tomb of Mentuemhat (no. 34), second court. Purchased from Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” January 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Wunderlich, Silvia A. “A Group of Egyptian Reliefs of the Saïte Period.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 3 (March 1952): 44–50. Mentioned: p. 45-46; Reproduced: p. 48 www.jstor.org
    Cooney, John D. “Pharaoh’s Rat.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 52, no. 8 (October 1965): 101–105. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 104, fig. 3 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 16 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: p. 411; Mentioned: p. 412
  • In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
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