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Dish in the Form of a Shell

Dish in the Form of a Shell

1540–1296 BCE
(1540–1069 BCE)
travertine
Overall: 2.4 x 9.1 cm (15/16 x 3 9/16 in.)
Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust 1914.814
Location: not on view
  • Purchased in Egypt by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
  • Kozloff, Arielle P. Egypt’s Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and his world. Cleveland : Cleveland Museum of Art in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1992. Reproduced: cat. 113, p. 412
    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. 270; Mentioned: p. 270
  • Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and His World. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 1-September 27, 1992); Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (October 24, 1992-January 31, 1993); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (March 2-May 31, 1993).
    CMA 1916, no. 69, p. 211; CMA/Fort Worth/Paris 1992-93, no. 113 (entry by Arielle P. Kozloff)
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