Plaque Depicting a Ram by Ancient Egyptian
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Plaque Depicting a Ram

Ancient Egyptian · Ptolemaic Period (332–30 BCE)

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Panayotis Kyticas, Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through James Henry Breasted as agent, 1919.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • 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: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), pp. 44 (ill.), 45, 46.
  • A Guide to the Oriental Institute Museum (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1982), p. 35.
  • Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago, by Karen Manchester (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2012), p. 28.
  • Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/30"><em>“Cat. 15 Plaque Depicting a Ram,”</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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