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Statuette of a Sphinx from a Barque Standard

Ancient Egyptian · Third Intermediate Period, late Dynasty 21–Dynasty 22, about 984–715 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1894; price reimbursed by Norman W. Harris, Robert H. Fleming, Henry H. Getty, and Charles L. Hutchinson.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

"Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 154A, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Art Institute of Chicago, When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt After Alexander the Great, October 31, 2013 - July 27, 2014; traveled to New York, NY, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, October 8, 2014 - January 4, 2015.
Art Institute of Chicago, Life and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt, Feb. 11, 2022 - present.

Literature

Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), pp. 106-107 (ill.).
Günther Roeder, Ägyptische Bronzefiguren (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1956), p. 368, §482b, fig. 516, p. 390, §522b, p. 421, §580h, pp. 449-50, §614c.
Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ed., When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. Exh. cat. (New York: Institute for the Study of the Ancient World; Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014), p. 104, cat. 126.
Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/38"><em>“Cat. 23 Statuette of a Sphinx from a Barque Standard,”</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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