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Ushabti (Funerary Figurine) of Psamtek
Ancient Egyptian · Late Period, Dynasty 26, reign of Amasis (570–526 BCE)
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mrs. Nathaniel B. Potter; given to Theodore W. and Frances S. Robinson, Chicago, by 1940 [correspondence in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1942.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Cleveland Museum of Fine Arts, Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, May 10, 1998 - July 5, 1998; traveled to the Rhode Island School of Design, August 24, 1998, January 3, 1999; and Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, January 31, 1999 - April 25, 1999.
- Art Institute of Chicago, When the Greeks Ruled: Egypt After Alexander the Great, October 31, 2013 - July 27, 2014; traveled to New York, NY, the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, October 8, 2014 - January 4, 2015.
Literature
Published references
- 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. 21, fig. 1-4, p. 102 (cat. 114).
- Florence Dunn Friedman, Gifts of the Nile: Ancient Egyptian Faience, exh. cat. (New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998), pp. 155 (ill.), 241 (no. 152).
- Emily Teeter, <a href="https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/56"><em>“Cat. 41 Ushabti of Psamtek,”</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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