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Statuette of Re-Horakhty

Ancient Egyptian · Third Intermediate Period-Late Period, Dynasty 21–26, about 1069–525 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

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

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Long term loan to the Oriental Institute Museum at The University of Chicago, October 10, 1941 - January 14, 1993.
Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Rubloff 154A, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
Oriental Institute, Between Heaven & Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt, October 16, 2012 - July 28, 2013.
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

Published references

Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), pp. 101-02 (ill.).
Günther Roeder, Ägyptische Bronzefiguren (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, 1956), p. 80, §114a, pl. 74a.
Emily Teeter, “Egyptian Art,” in Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies 20, 1 (1994), pp. 24 (ill.), 26, no. 8.
<a href=https://archive.artic.edu/cleo><em>Cleopatra: A Multi-Media Guide to the Ancient World</em></a> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997).
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Committee of Two,” in “The Prime Mover”: Charles L. Hutchinson and the Making of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Studies 36, 1 (2010), p. 63, fig. 20.
Rozenn Bailleul-LeSuer, ed., Between Heaven and Earth: Birds in Ancient Egypt, exh. cat. (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2012), pp. 135-36 (ill.), cat. 3.
Roberta Casagrande-Kim, ed., When the Greeks Ruled Egypt: From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, exh. cat. (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University/Princeton University Press, 2014), p. 20 fig. 1-2, p. 101, cat. 103.
Heike C. Schmidt, “Die Rolle der Gebrüder Brugsch im ägyptischen Antikenhandel,” in Mosse im Museum: Die Stiftungstätigkeit des Berliner Verlegers Rudolf Mosse (1843-1920) für das ägyptische Museum Berlin, ed. Jana Helmbold-Doyé and Thomas L. Gertzen, exh. cat. (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin/Hentrich & Hentrich, 2017), pp. 49, 56n48.
Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/39"><em>“Cat. 24 Statuette of Re-Horakhty,”</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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