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Priests Performing Funeral Rites

c. 667–647 BCE

Egypt, Late period , Dynasties 25–26

(715–332 BCE)
limestone
Overall: 36.2 x 48.2 cm (14 1/4 x 19 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.286
Location: 107 Egyptian

Description

A priest and two attendants perform ceremonies for the deceased. Originally, there probably existed (to the left) certain offerings. It is an exact copy of a scene in the Temple of Deir el Bahari made some seven centuries earlier where the figures are reversed.
  • Thebes, Asasif, tomb of Mentuemhat (no. 34). Purchased from Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris (Mallon 254)
  • Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” January 1952, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    Wunderlich, Silvia. "A Group of Egyptian Reliefs of the Saïte Period." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 39, no. 3 (March 1952): 44-47, 49-50. Mentioned: p. 44 www.jstor.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 and Mentioned: p. 402
  • In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
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