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Torso of Archibios

CultureEgyptian
Date2nd century B.C.E.
MediumGray granite
DimensionsOverall: 43 1/2 × 18 1/4 × 13 inches (110.49 × 46.36 × 33.02 cm)
Part (black base): 7 7/16 × 18 7/8 × 17 7/8 inches (18.89 × 47.94 × 45.4 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-12
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 102
Collections
Exhibition History

Echoes of Eternity: The Egyptian Mummy and the Afterlife, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, June 4-May 7, 1999-2000.

Beyond the Nile: Egypt and the Classical World, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, March 27-September 9, 2018.

Gallery Label
One of the most powerful officials of his time, Archibios was the equivalent of Egypt's prime minister. He dedicated this statue of himself to stand in eternal prayer in a sanctuary before the Great God of Mendes.
Provenance

Found at Mendes, Egypt;

 

With Paul Mallon, New York, by 1947;

 

Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.
Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 17.

 

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), 21.

 

Bernard Bothmer, Egyptian Sculpture of the Late Period, exh. cat. (Brooklyn: The Brooklyn Museum, 1960), 124-25.

 

John Cooney, “Art of the Ancient World,” Apollo 96 (1972): 476, 478, fig. 8.

 

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), 29.

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 115.

 

Lawrence Berman, Catalogue of Egyptian Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art (Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999), 462.

 

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 10, fig. 24.

 

David Klotz, “The Statue of the diokêtês Harchebi/Archibios, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art 47-12,” Bulletin de L’Institut français d’archéologie orientale 109 (2009): 281-310.

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