About the Artwork
Unfinished Statue of a Standing Man
ca. 663 BCE
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Egyptian
Egyptian
Limestone
Overall: 15 1/8 × 7 1/8 × 6 1/2 inches (38.4 × 18.1 × 16.5 cm)
Sculpture
African Art
Gift of the Mendes Excavation
80.66
This work is in the public domain.
Markings
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Provenance
excavated by Institute of Fine Arts, New York University - American Research Center in Egypt excavations, from (Mendes, Eastern Nile Delta)
1980-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Mendes Excavation Number 5M22.
Bianchi, Robert S. "Ex-Votos of Dynasty XXVI," Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaologischen Instituts Abteilung Cairo, Band 35. 1979, p. 20, note 48.
Peck, William H. “Archaeolog and the Detroit Institute of Arts,” Bulletin of the DIA 79, no. 1/2 (2005): 10, (fig. 8).
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Egyptian, Unfinished Statue of a Standing Man, ca. 663 BCE, limestone. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of the Mendes Excavation, 80.66.
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