Grave Sculpture
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Possibly Sheikh Abada, Egypt [1];
With Paul Mallon, New York, by 1955;
Purchased from Mallon by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1955.
NOTES:
[1] According to a hand-written note in NAMA Registration files (author and date not recorded), the dealer Nessim Cohen identified this object as from the chapel of the cemetery at Cheikh Abada.
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), 42.
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), 52.
Klaus Parlasca, “Der Übergang von der spätrömischen zur frühkoptischen Kunst im Lichte der Grabreliefs von Oxyrhynchos,” Enchoria. Zeitschrift für Demotistik und Koptologie 8 Sinderband (1978): 118 (164).
Thelma Thomas, Late Antique Egyptian Funerary Sculpture: Images for this World and the Next (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), figs. 68, 71.
