About the Artwork
Princess Holding a Sistrum
between 1365 and 1347 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Limestone
Overall: 9 × 10 1/2 × 1 1/2 inches (22.9 × 26.7 × 3.8 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund and donations from Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton and Mr. and Mrs. Clifford B. West
66.8
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
probably from (Tel el Amarna, Egypt)
Michel E. Abemayor
1966-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Cooney, John D. Amarna Reliefs from Hermopolis in American Collections. New York: The Brooklyn Museum, 1965, no. 18, pp. 31-2, (ill.) [all the paint is modern].
Cooney, John, D. Amarna-Reliefs from Hermopolis in American Collections. The Brooklyn Museum. 1965, no. 18, pp. 31-32.
Bulletin of the DIA 46, no. 1 (1967): pp. 15, 20 (ill.).
Roeder, Gunther. Amarna-Reliefs Aus Hermopolis. Hildesheim, 1969, p. 406; Tafel 183, p. 69.
Peck. 1970, pp. 269, 270 (ill.).
Peck, W. H. Connoisseur, vol. 175 (December 1970): p. 269, (fig. 4).
Aldred, C. Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Exh. cat., DIA, Brooklyn Museum. Detroit, New York, December 19, 1973-February 28, 1974, no. 127, p. 195, (ill.).
Aldred, Cyril. Akhenaten and Nefertiti. The Brooklyn Museum. New York, 1973, pp. 194, 195 (ill.).
Peck. 1983, p. 5.
"Family Art Game: Visions and Rhythms," The Detroit Free Press (April 23, 1995): p. 5 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].
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Egyptian, Princess Holding a Sistrum, between 1365 and 1347 BCE, limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund and donations from Dr. and Mrs. Irving F. Burton, et al., 66.8.
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