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Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet

Ancient Egyptian · Middle Kingdom, early Dynasty 12, about 1956–1877 BCE

Provenance

Ownership history

Ralph Huntington Blanchard (1875-1936), Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago through James Henry Breasted as agent, 1920.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Long term loan to the Oriental Institute Museum at The University of Chicago, August 4, 1949- October 21, 1991.
The Art Institute of Chicago, The Classical Collection: Early Accessions, Gallery 101A, October 8, 1986-February 27, 1987.
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.
Art Institute of Chicago, Signs and Wonders: The Photographs of John Beasley Greene, February 8–August 11, 2020.
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), p. 40 (ill.).
Karen Alexander, "The New Galleries of Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," Minerva, vol. 5, no. 3 (May/June, 1994), p. 29, fig. 1.
Emily Teeter, "Egyptian Art," Museum Studies: Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago, vol. 20, no. 1 (1994), pp. 19-20 (ill.), no. 3.
<a href=https://archive.artic.edu/cleo>Cleopatra: A Multi-Media Guide to the Ancient World</a> (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1997).
Geoff Emberling and Emily Teeter, “The First Expedition of the Oriental Institute, 1919-1920,” in Pioneers to the Past: American Archaeologists in the Middle East 1919-1920, ed. Geoff Emberling, Oriental Institute Museum Publications 30 (Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2010), pp. 47-48, fig. 4.17.
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, "Collecting for Chicago: James Henry Breasted and the Egyptian Collections," in the Oriental Institute, News and Notes, Members' Magazine, issue 226 (Summer 2015), cover illustration.
James Rondeau, Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Highlights of the Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2019), p. 12.
Ashley Arico,“<a href="https://www.artic.edu/articles/824/reading-ancient-egyptian-art-a-curator-answers-common-questions">Reading Ancient Egyptian Art: A Curator Answers Common Questions,</a>” Art Institute of Chicago ARTicle, July 14, 2020.
Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/22">“Cat. 7 Stela of Amenemhat and Hemet,”</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).
James Rondeau (ed.), Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2026), cat. no. 2, p. 25 (ill.).

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