Stele of Se-ankhy and Ankhu
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Echoes of Eternity: The Egyptian Mummy and the Afterlife, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, June 4, 1999-May 7, 2000.
The relief stood in Abydos, a sacred site. The hope was that pilgrims passing by the relief (and many others like it) would recite the prayer for food and thereby magically ensure that the spirits of the deceased would have everything-and more-pictured on the table. The goose lying on its back and the bovine leg were, no doubt, a special treat.
Abydos [1];
With D. G. Kelekian, by 1933;
Purchased from Kelekian by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1933.
NOTES:
[1] See, for example, Rita Freed, “The Development of Middle Kingdom Egyptian Sculpture Schools of the Late Dynasty XI with an Appendix on the Trends of the Early Dynasty XII” (PhD diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1984), 221.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Handbook of the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1933), 116, (repro.).
“The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, Kansas City Special Number,”
The Art News 32, no. 10 (December 9, 1933): 54, 56, (repro.).
Rita Freed, “The Development of Middle Kingdom Egyptian Sculpture Schools of the Late Dynasty XI with an Appendix on the Trends of the Early Dynasty XII” (PhD diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1984), 221, 279n853.
Rita Freed, “Stela Workshops of Early Dynasty 12,” in Studies in Honor of William Kelly Simpson, ed. Peter Der Manuelian (Boston: Museum of Fines Arts, 1996), 324, 325, fig. 9c, 326.
