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Bead Net Funerary Shroud
Ancient Egyptian · Late Period, Dynasty 26 (664-525 BCE)
Provenance
Ownership history
- Reverend Chauncey Murch (1859-1907), Luxor, Egypt; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1894; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1894.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, The Classical Collection: Early Accessions, Gallery 101A, October 8, 1986-February 27, 1987.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.
Literature
Published references
- Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923), 116.
- Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/104"><em>“Cat. 105 Bead Net Funerary Shroud,”</em></a> in Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Emily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico, ed. Ashley F. Arico (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025).
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