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Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope

c. 1427–1401 BC

Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC), reign of Amenhotep II

Boxwood with inscription inlaid in Egyptian blue

Overall: 2.2 x 21 x 3.6 cm (7/8 x 8 1/4 x 1 7/16 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.680

Find spot: Thebes, Egypt

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Painting was a popular and time-honored pastime among the upper classes in Egypt.

Description

This paint box still preserves its original cakes of pigment: one cake each of red (red ocher), blue (Egyptian blue), green (a mixture of Egyptian blue, yellow ocher, and orpiment) and two of black (carbon black, from charcoal). It belonged to Amenemope, who was vizier, or prime minister, under Amenhotep II. Amenemope probably used his paint box for recreation.

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Inscription Translation

Blue on Front: The overseer of the city and vizier Amenemope. Master of secrets of the west bank [of Thebes]. Red on Back: Amen-Ra, Lord of the Thrones of the Two Lands....

Provenance

?-1913

Mohammed Mohasseb and Son, Luxor, sold to Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent

1913-1914

(Lucy Olcott Perkins, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)

1914-

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Museum of Art: Catalogue of the Inaugural Exhibition, June 6-September 20, 1916. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. p. 205, no. 10 archive.org

Williams, Caroline Ransom. "The Egyptian Collection in the Museum of Art at Cleveland, Ohio (Continued)." The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 5, no. 4 (1918). p. 278 www.jstor.org

Rhodes, Lynette I. Science Within Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1980. no. 17

Egypt's Golden Age, the Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C.: Catalogue of the Exhibition. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1982. no. 398

Freed, Rita E. Ramesses the Great: The Pharaoh and His Time. Charlotte, N.C.: Mint Museum of Art, 1988. p. 103

J. Paul Getty Museum, and Getty Conservation Institute. In the Tomb of Nefertari: Conservation of the Wall Paintings. [Malibu, Calif.]: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1992. no. 12

Schulz, Regine, Matthias Seidel, and Hartwig Altenmüller. Egypt: the world of the pharaohs. Köln: Könemann, 1998. p. 348, fig. 39

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. 312, Color p. 57; Mentioned: p. 311-312

Strosberg, Eliane. Art and Science. Paris: Unesco Publ, 1999. p. 137

Vandenbeusch, Marie, Aude Semat, and Margaret Maitland. Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art ; London : The British Museum, 2016.

Mentioned: p. 113, 165; Reproduced: p. 112

Exhibition history

Inaugural Exhibition, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (June 6-September 20, 1916).

Egypt’s Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom 1558-1085 B.C., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Feb. 3-May 2, 1982); Houston Museum of Natural Science (July 14-Sept. 19, 1982); Walters Art Gallery (Oct. 27, 1982-Jan. 2, 1983).

In the Tomb of Nefertari: Conservation of the Wall Paintings, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, CA (12 November 1992-21 February 1993).

Science within Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (February 13-April 20, 1980).

Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 13-June 12, 2016).

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Paint Box of Vizier Amenemope

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Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC), reign of Amenhotep II

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