Metjetji with His Daughter and Son
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L’art egyptien au temps des pyramides, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, April 6-July 12, 1999, no. 147; Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, September 16, 1999-January 9, 2000, no. 154; L’art egyptien au temps des pyramides/ Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, February 13-May 22, 2000.
Metjejti's spirit appears striding outside the tomb among the living in daylight. His spirit can venture forth because his vital life force has been fed by offerings left in his tomb, and his ba (roughly speaking, his soul or personality) has returned to his mummy.
Tomb of Metjetji, Sakkara, Egypt;
With Paul Mallon, New York, by 1952;
Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1952.
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), 15.
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), 24.
Peter Kaplony, Studien zum Grab des Methethi (Bern: Abegg Stiftung, 1976), 26-31, no. 6, 44-48.
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), 111.
Christine Ziegler, “La tombe de Métchétchi,” in L’art egyptien au temps des pyramides, exh. cat. (Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1999), 315, 319, no. 147.
Christine Ziegler, “The Tomb of Metjetji,” in Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids, exh. cat. (New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999), 409, 413-14, no. 154.
Bertha Porter et al., Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, vol. 3, Memphis, pt. 2, Saqqara to Dashūr (Oxford: Griffith Institute, 2003), 646.
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), 7, fig.10.
