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Statuette of Achoris or Nectanebo I
Statuette of Achoris or Nectanebo I

Statuette of Achoris or Nectanebo I

CultureEgyptian
Date393-362 B.C.E.
MediumBronze
DimensionsOverall: 8 1/16 × 3 inches (20.47 × 7.62 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number53-13
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 103
Collections
DescriptionThe pharaoh kneels humbly before some now unseen deity. The king wears a skirt and a Blue Crown whose uraeus forms two horizonally oriented loops. One or two streamers extend from the back of the crown to the belt. A cartouche on the front of the pharaoh's belt appears to have three hieroglyphs. The middle-aged ruler has a heavy, rounded face with large ears, full lips, and a double chin. His body is summarily rendered.Exhibition History

Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, Brooklyn Museum, October 17, 1960-January 9, 1961, no. 71.

 

Egyptian Art under the Greeks and Romans: 332 B.C. to A.D. 330, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, September 25-November 19, 1987, no. 10.

Gallery Label
This pharaoh kneels down and extends his arms to make an offering to the gods. The artist has vividly portrayed the king's heavy, middle-aged face and the flesh of his thighs spreading as they press down on his lower legs.
Provenance

With Paul Mallon (1884-1975), New York and Paris, by July 1949-1953 [1];

Purchased from Paul Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1953.

NOTES:

[1] This object was on loan from Mallon to the Nelson-Atkins from July 1949 until its purchase in 1953.


Published References

Cyril Aldred, “The Carnarvon Statuette of Amūn,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 42 (December 1956): 6.

 

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 22.

 

Bernard Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, exh. cat. (Brooklyn: Brooklyn Museum, 1960), 88-89, no. 71, plate 67, figs. 172, 173.

 

John Cooney, “Art of the Ancient World,” Apollo 96 (1972): 476, 478, fig. 7.

 

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 30.

 

Jane Biers, Egyptian Art under the Greeks and the Romans, 332 B.C. to A.D. 330, exh. cat. (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri-Columbia, 1987), no. 10.

 

Karol Myśliwiec, Royal Portraiture of the Dynasties XXI-XXX (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1988), 57n201, 60, 64, 69, 78, 91, no. 5.    

 

Marsha Hill, Royal Bronze Statuary from Ancient Egypt with Special Attention to the Kneeling Pose, Egyptological Memoirs 3 (Leiden: Brill/Styx, 2004), 92-94, 106, 166-67, no. 32, plate 65.

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side A overall
ca. 380-250 B.C.E.
2007.12.1.A-C
overall oblique
ca. 380-250 B.C.E.
2007.12.2.A,B
Shunga dynasty (199-1 B.C.E.)
F92-15/3
Stele of Se-ankhy and Ankhu
ca.1970-1950 B.C.E.
33-16
recto overall
1911
2013.10.1.1
Royal Foot Rest
1911
2013.10.1.2
top overall
1911
2013.10.1.3.1-7
recto overall
1911
2013.10.2.1
Royal Foot Rest
1911
2013.10.2.2