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The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is the second largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States. Arnold L. Lehman is the museum's Director. Opened in 1897, the Brooklyn Museum building is a steel frame structure—built to the standards of classical masonry—designed by the famous architectural firm of McKi…
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Head of a Snarling Lion in the Brooklyn Museum, Ja…
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Dress Ornament
The Achaemenid rulers of ancient Persia favored images of lions with their mouths open in a snarl or roar. On these gold jewelry elements they are shown complete or as heads only, in both fairly realistic and highly decorative forms. The gold head of a bull, another dangerous animal, seems almost placid in comparison. The pin decorated with an ibex, or wild mountain goat (no. 6) was used to fasten garments.
This text refers to these objects: 70.142.6; 70.142.7; 70.142.8; 70.142.10; 70.142.11; 1998.25
Medium: Gold
Possible Place Made: Ecbatana (modern day Hamadan), Persia (modern day Iran)
Dates: 6th-5th century B.C.E.
Period: Persian Achaemenid
Dimensions: 1 7/8 x 1/16 x 2 5/16 in. (4.7 x 0.2 x 5.9 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Ancient Middle Eastern Art, The Hagop Kevorkian Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 70.142.11
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alastair Bradley Martin
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/96780/Dress...
Female Figure in the Brooklyn Museum, January 2010
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Female Figure
Representations of female figures with highly abstracted forms occur throughout most of the Predynastic Period. On statuettes of this period, the legs are usually not articulated and the faces are beaklike. This rare undamaged example, one of the oldest works in the Brooklyn Museum, was found in a burial excavated by the Museum's first archaeological expedition in Egypt. The symbolism, function, and identity of the figure are not certain. However, similar female figures painted on Predynastic vessels appear to be goddesses, because they are always larger than the male "priests" shown with them.
Medium: Terracotta, painted
Reportedly From: Ma'mariya, Egypt
Dates: ca. 3500-3400 B.C.E.
Period: Predynastic Period, Naqada IIa Period
Dimensions: 11 1/2 x 5 1/2 x 2 1/4 in. (29.2 x 14 x 5.7 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 07.447.505
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/4225/Female...
Paddle Doll in the Brooklyn Museum, January 2010
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Paddle Doll
So-called paddle dolls are flat, schematic representations of naked, legless female figures on which jewelry, belts, and other details have been painted or drawn. Made as fertility figures, they were dedicated to goddesses by women or couples hoping to bear children. Some are adorned with strings of mud pellets, apparently imitating hair. Many aslo have painted images—possibly representing tattoos—of deities such as Bes and Taweret or of human coupls in sexual embrace.
Medium: Wood, clay
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 2081-1700 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XI Dynasty-XIII Dynasty
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dimensions: 8 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1/4 in. (22.3 x 6.3 x 0.7 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 37.101E
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3964/Paddle...
Paddle Doll in the Brooklyn Museum, January 2010
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Paddle Doll
So-called paddle dolls are flat, schematic representations of naked, legless female figures on which jewelry, belts, and other details have been painted or drawn. Made as fertility figures, they were dedicated to goddesses by women or couples hoping to bear children. Some are adorned with strings of mud pellets, apparently imitating hair. Many aslo have painted images—possibly representing tattoos—of deities such as Bes and Taweret or of human coupls in sexual embrace.
Medium: Wood, clay
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 2081-1700 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XI Dynasty - early XIII Dynasty
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dimensions: 9 x 2 5/8 x 3/16 in. (22.8 x 6.7 x 0.5 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 37.102E
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3965/Paddle... ;
Statue of Nykara and his Family in the Brooklyn Mu…
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Statue of Nykara and his Family
This family statue depicts Nykara, who was a scribe of the granary, seated between the standing figures of his son, Ankhmara, and his wife, Khuen-nub. Beneath the central part of Khuen-nub's short wig, her natural hair is indicated by horizontal lines and a row of stylized curls. The boy's nakedness, sidelock of hair, and finger-to-mouth gesture indicate that he is very young, but he is depicted as the same height as his mother. And, if Nykara were shown standing, he would tower over his two companions. Although Old Kingdom group statues often show the man on a larger scale, this particular composition seems also to reflect the sculptor's desire to show all three heads in a row.
Medium: Limestone, painted
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 2455-2350 B.C.E.
Dynasty: late V Dynasty
Period: Old Kingdom
Dimensions: 22 5/8 x 14 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. (57.5 x 36.8 x 27.7 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 49.215
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3544/Statue...
Detail of the Statue of Nykara and his Family in t…
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Statue of Nykara and his Family
This family statue depicts Nykara, who was a scribe of the granary, seated between the standing figures of his son, Ankhmara, and his wife, Khuen-nub. Beneath the central part of Khuen-nub's short wig, her natural hair is indicated by horizontal lines and a row of stylized curls. The boy's nakedness, sidelock of hair, and finger-to-mouth gesture indicate that he is very young, but he is depicted as the same height as his mother. And, if Nykara were shown standing, he would tower over his two companions. Although Old Kingdom group statues often show the man on a larger scale, this particular composition seems also to reflect the sculptor's desire to show all three heads in a row.
Medium: Limestone, painted
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 2455-2350 B.C.E.
Dynasty: late V Dynasty
Period: Old Kingdom
Dimensions: 22 5/8 x 14 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. (57.5 x 36.8 x 27.7 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 49.215
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3544/Statue...
Detail of the Statue of Nykara and his Family in t…
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Statue of Nykara and his Family
This family statue depicts Nykara, who was a scribe of the granary, seated between the standing figures of his son, Ankhmara, and his wife, Khuen-nub. Beneath the central part of Khuen-nub's short wig, her natural hair is indicated by horizontal lines and a row of stylized curls. The boy's nakedness, sidelock of hair, and finger-to-mouth gesture indicate that he is very young, but he is depicted as the same height as his mother. And, if Nykara were shown standing, he would tower over his two companions. Although Old Kingdom group statues often show the man on a larger scale, this particular composition seems also to reflect the sculptor's desire to show all three heads in a row.
Medium: Limestone, painted
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 2455-2350 B.C.E.
Dynasty: late V Dynasty
Period: Old Kingdom
Dimensions: 22 5/8 x 14 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. (57.5 x 36.8 x 27.7 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 49.215
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3544/Statue...
Detail of the Statue of Nykara and his Family in t…
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Statue of Nykara and his Family
This family statue depicts Nykara, who was a scribe of the granary, seated between the standing figures of his son, Ankhmara, and his wife, Khuen-nub. Beneath the central part of Khuen-nub's short wig, her natural hair is indicated by horizontal lines and a row of stylized curls. The boy's nakedness, sidelock of hair, and finger-to-mouth gesture indicate that he is very young, but he is depicted as the same height as his mother. And, if Nykara were shown standing, he would tower over his two companions. Although Old Kingdom group statues often show the man on a larger scale, this particular composition seems also to reflect the sculptor's desire to show all three heads in a row.
Medium: Limestone, painted
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 2455-2350 B.C.E.
Dynasty: late V Dynasty
Period: Old Kingdom
Dimensions: 22 5/8 x 14 1/2 x 10 7/8 in. (57.5 x 36.8 x 27.7 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 49.215
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3544/Statue...
Hedgehog in the Brooklyn Museum, March 2010
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Hedgehog
When food is scarce, hedgehogs retreat into underground dens for long periods, only to re-emerge in times of abundance. The Egyptians associated this behavior with rebirth and thus wore amulets in the form of hedgehogs or left figures such as this one in tombs. Also, according to the Ebers Medical Papyrus of the early Eighteenth Dynasty, hedgehog spines, when ground up and mixed with fat or oil, cured baldness.
Medium: Faience
Place Made: Deir el Nawahid, Egypt
Dates: ca. 1938-1700 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XII Dynasty-early XIII Dynasty
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dimensions: 1 5/8 x 1 5/8 x 2 13/16 in. (4.2 x 4.1 x 7.1 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 65.2.1
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3735/Hedgehog
Votive Hippos in the Brooklyn Museum, March 2010
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Votive (probably) Hippo
These coarse figures stand on low bases representing sleds or sledges, possibly alluding to a ritual called The Feast of the White Hippopotamus in which a hippo was dragged on a sledge before the king. Worshipers at the festival probably either left these objects as votive offerings or acquired them as keepsakes.
This text refers to these objects: 70.93.2; 70.93.3
Medium: Pottery
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 2081-1700 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XI Dynasty-early XIII Dynasty
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dimensions: 3 3/4 x 5 1/2 x 2 15/16 in. (9.6 x 14 x 7.5 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 70.93.3
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3795/Votive_pro...
Princess Sobeknakht in the Brooklyn Museum, March…
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Princess Sobeknakht Suckling a Prince
Beginning in the Middle Kingdom, craftsmen demonstrated great skill in designing and manufacturing metal statuary. This copper statuette, representing a woman suckling a male child, is considered among the finest of these sculptures. The inscription on the base identifies the subject as the "hereditary noblewoman" Sobeknakht; her fillet and uraeus-cobra show that she is a princess. The figure may have been commissioned to celebrate the birth of a prince, to signal a reigning king's devotion to his mother, or to reflect Sobeknakht's wish for divine help in conceiving a child who would become Egypt's king.
Medium: Copper alloy
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 1700-after 1630 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XIII Dynasty
Period: Middle Kingdom-Second Intermediate Period
Dimensions: 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) Base: 3/16 x 2 3/4 x 3 3/16 in. (0.5 x 7 x 8.1 cm)
Conservation Report: 4 x 2 3/4 x 3 1/4 in. (10.2 x 7 x 8.3 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Old Kingdom to 18th Dynasty, Egyptian Galleries, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 43.137
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3463/Prince...
Statuette of a Nursing Woman in the Brooklyn Museu…
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Statuette of Nursing Woman
The pose of the nursing woman—a standard one in Egyptian art—was also the hieroglyph meaning "nurse." Because its subjects are not identified, this little figure probably did not represent real individuals but rather served as a votive gift requesting a goddess's protection.
Medium: Limestone
Place Made: Egypt
Dates: ca. 1938-after 1630 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XII Dynasty-XIII Dynasty
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dimensions: 4 9/16 in. (11.6 cm)
Base: 2 1/2 x 3 5/16 in. (6.3 x 8.4 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 51.224
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3565/Statue...
Statue in a Niche in the Brooklyn Museum, August 2…
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Statue in a Niche
Limestone
Old Kingdom, Dynasty IV-V, circa 2600-2345 BC
Possibly from Saqqara
Accession # 37.24E
In the tomb a statue of the deceased served as part of a rite of commemoration, functioning as the focal point for remembering the person when family members visited the tomb on religious holidays. It also provided an alternative body for the ba of the deceased if the mummy were destroyed. This niche served yet another purpose. Its cutting three-quarters in the round suggests the idea of coming forth, one of the powers that the deceaesd possessed as an akh, a transformed being who had overcome the constraints of death and could effectively move about in the hereafter.
Text from the Brooklyn Museum label.
Pair Statue of Nebsen & Nebet-ta in the Brooklyn M…
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Pair Statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta
Nebsen, the scribe of the royal treasury, and his wife, the songstress of Isis, Nebet-ta, wear the elaborate wigs fashionable in the later Eighteenth Dynasty. Their jewelry, painted yellow to imitate gold, was varnished to make it shine; the varnish has darkened with time. The inscription tells us that the statue was made for the couple's tomb by their son, Weserhat. In fulfilling this filial duty after their deaths, he had them depicted in the fashion of his day, rather than that current under Thutmose III, when they actually lived.
Medium: Limestone, painted
Possible Place Collected: Dahamsha, Egypt
Dates: ca. 1400-1352 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XVIII Dynasty
Period: New Kingdom
Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 8 9/16 x 9 1/4 in. (40 x 21.8 x 23.5 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 40.523
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3454/Pair_S...
Detail of the Pair Statue of Nebsen & Nebet-ta in…
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Pair Statue of Nebsen and Nebet-ta
Nebsen, the scribe of the royal treasury, and his wife, the songstress of Isis, Nebet-ta, wear the elaborate wigs fashionable in the later Eighteenth Dynasty. Their jewelry, painted yellow to imitate gold, was varnished to make it shine; the varnish has darkened with time. The inscription tells us that the statue was made for the couple's tomb by their son, Weserhat. In fulfilling this filial duty after their deaths, he had them depicted in the fashion of his day, rather than that current under Thutmose III, when they actually lived.
Medium: Limestone, painted
Possible Place Collected: Dahamsha, Egypt
Dates: ca. 1400-1352 B.C.E.
Dynasty: XVIII Dynasty
Period: New Kingdom
Dimensions: 15 3/4 x 8 9/16 x 9 1/4 in. (40 x 21.8 x 23.5 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 40.523
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3454/Pair_S...
Raised Relief in the Brooklyn Museum, March 2010
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Early Image of Nefertiti in the Brooklyn Museum, J…
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Early Image of Nefertiti
Sandstone, painted
New Kingdom, late Dynasty 18, first five years of the reign of Amunhotep IV/ Akhenaten (circa 1352-1347 BC)
Almost certainly from Karnak
Accession # 64.199.2
Nefertiti raises her arms in an attitude of prayer or offering. Originally the Aten appeared above her. The two tiny hands in front of the queen's face belong to streams of light coming from the sun disk. One of these hands holds an ankh-sign (the hieroglyph for "life") to Nefertiti's nose, so that she can receive the "breath of life" given to the faithful by the Aten.
Text from the Brooklyn Museum label.
Relief of Nefertiti in the Brooklyn Museum, Januar…
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Nefertiti
Occasionally we can identify one of the members of the Amarna royal family by a unique characteristic. The woman on this column drum has a tall, flat-topped crown worn exclusively by Nefertiti. This same headdress appears on the famous bust of the queen that is in the Berlin Museum.
Medium: Limestone, painted
Possible Place Made: El Amarna, Egypt
Dates: ca. 1352-1336 B.C.E.
Dynasty: late XVIII Dynasty
Period: New Kingdom, Amarna Period
Dimensions: 9 1/4 x 15 3/16 in. (23.5 x 38.5 cm)
Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Amarna Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
Accession Number: 71.89
Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Text from: www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3805/Nefert...
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