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Bronze mounts from a "Shawabty Bundle"; Head and Crossed Arms

c. 1336–1256 BCE

Egypt, Thebes, Wadi Qubbanet el-Qirud, New Kingdom , Dynasties 18–19

(1540–1069 BCE)
head; bronze face, black copper wig, with traces of gilding
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.555
Location: 107 Egyptian
  • Probably Thebes, Wadi Qubbanet el-Qirud. Purchased from Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 4 archive.org
    Cooney, John D. “Siren and Ba, Birds of a Feather.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 55, no. 8 (October 1968): 262–271. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 267, fig. 11 www.jstor.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 4 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. 381; Mentioned: p. 381-383
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