The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of May 29, 2023

Overseer Shawabty

1069–945 BC

Egypt, Third Intermediate Period, probably late Dynasty 21

Turquoise faience with dark purple decoration

Overall: 10.8 x 4.2 x 2.8 cm (4 1/4 x 1 5/8 x 1 1/8 in.)

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.588

Location

not on view

Provenance
Probably Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Bab el-Gasus tomb. Purchased in Egypt by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
Citations
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. 357; Mentioned: p. 357
Exhibition history

CMA 1916, p. 208, no. 36

The Cleveland Museum of Art (5/10/98 - 7/5/98); Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design (8/25/98 - 1/3/99). "Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience," not in exh. cat.

Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 10-July 5, 1998); Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, RI (August 25, 1998-January 3, 1999).

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